Quotes about Understanding
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
— Richard Baxter
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
— Phillips Brooks
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
— Jonathan Edwards
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
— Tertullian
Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
— Thomas a Kempis
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
— Thomas Merton
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
— Aldous Huxley
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
— Charles Spurgeon
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher