Quotes about Understanding
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
— Joseph Addison
The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
— Earl Nightingale
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
— Euripides
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
— Euripides
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