Quotes about Understanding
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
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