Quotes about Understanding
We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorance is the womb of monsters
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
— Henry Ward Beecher