Quotes about Understanding
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
— George Eliot
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man by Nature desires to know.
— Aristotle
It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.
— Dorothy Day
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
— George Bernard Shaw
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.
— Terry James