Famous Understanding Quotes

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

"There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint."