Quotes about Understanding
A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.
— Anonymous
Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
— Thomas Jefferson
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
— Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas Jefferson
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
— Thomas a Kempis
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
— Thomas Merton
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
— Thomas Merton