Quotes about Understanding

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

They are always wanting reasons, yet they are too ignorant to understand the merits of any question, and usually fall back on their moral sense to settle things after their own taste. Evidently

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.

No, dear, no, said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

Who knows that about anybody?

I suppose one reason why we are seldom able to comfort our neighbours with our words is that our goodwill gets adulterated, in spite of ourselves, before it can pass our lips. We can send black pudding and pettitoes without giving them a flavour of our own egoism; but language is a stream that is almost sure to smack of a mingled soil.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes;