Quotes about Understanding

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. a

He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.

Heathcliff is more myself than I am.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.