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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
— George Santayana
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) — Ovid
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) — Ovid
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.
— Deborah Tannen
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
— John Bunyan
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly.
— Carole Landis
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
— Woodrow Wilson
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza
— Lion Feuchtwanger
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.
— Kenneth Waltz
Men argue for the right to be free while women argue for the right to be upset. Men want space while women want understanding.
— John Gray
Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.
— James Hudson Taylor
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't be able to resist.
— Red Phoenix
Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.
— F. Matthias Alexander
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a great man to make a great listener
— Arthur Helps
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.
— Gautama Buddha
I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation.
— Anthony Powell
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The greatest dangers to liberty," said Mr. Brandeis, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
— E.B. White
The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men
— Basil Johnston
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
— James Thurber
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
— Meister Eckhart
Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.
— Raheel Farooq
In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
— Khaled Hosseini
The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
— Pearl Bailey
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
— Helen Rowland
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.
— Owen Feltham
Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them
— A.J. Wiliams
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
— Samuel Richardson
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
— Bill Gates
When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.
— Lao-Tzu
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
— Alva Myrdal
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
— John Dryden
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
— Heinz Kohut
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
— David S. Broder
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
— George Savile
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
— Criss Jami
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.
— Rajneesh
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
— Josh Billings
Don't try to understand women.
Women don't want to be understood,
they just want to be loved.
It is men who crave understanding. — Manoj Vaz
Women don't want to be understood,
they just want to be loved.
It is men who crave understanding. — Manoj Vaz
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
— Jean Rostand
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
— Clement Of Alexandria
There's a universal
understanding between
men of the silent sorrow
a man endures when
he loses a woman he
loves — Phil Volatile
understanding between
men of the silent sorrow
a man endures when
he loses a woman he
loves — Phil Volatile
For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
— Meredith Duran
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
— Michel De Montaigne
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
— John Locke
Man's best candle is his understanding.
— James Howell