Quotes about Understanding
I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ignorance of ourselves is another reason for forgiving others. Unfortunately it is ourselves we know least; our neighbor's sins, weaknesses, and failures we know a thousand times better than our own. Criticism of others may be bad, but it is want of self-criticism which is worse.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
— Victor Hugo
God knows better than we do what we need.
— Victor Hugo
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
— Victor Hugo
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
— Victor Hugo
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves
— Victor Hugo
Blind is he who will not see!
— Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love
— Victor Hugo
Live and Let live To love someone is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo