Quotes about Understanding
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
— Carl Jung
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
— Virginia Woolf
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
— Charles Spurgeon
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— GK Chesterton
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
— Aristotle
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
— Oscar Wilde
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton