Quotes about Understanding
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
— James G. Frazer
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
— Jim Rohn
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
— John Henry Newman
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
— Marcus Aurelius
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
— Tony Evans
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
— Albert Einstein
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
— Ayn Rand
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
— Booker T. Washington
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
— CS Lewis
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
— Carl Jung