An Understanding Man Quotes

#1. There is a big difference between knowing and understanding. If I had a choice of being remembered as a knowledgeable or an understanding man,give me understanding... hands down. RW

Rob Wood

#2. The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.

Francis Bacon

#3. I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

Frantz Fanon

#4. An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Gautama Buddha

#5. And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

Robert Penn

#6. I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

Tracy Reese

#7. It took a man capable of an immeasurable amount of understanding to strip away the insecurities I'd felt after learning what I was. It took a man capable of loving me until the end of the world to make me accept myself.
And I would move heaven and hell to keep him.
Always.

Keary Taylor

#8. 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

#9. It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures ...

Lee Wulff

#10. Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

Thomas Lovejoy

#11. Only in full surrender to the Spirit and to the Writings of God can a man or woman hope to find wisdom, knowledge, or an understanding of Spiritual things.

Todd Coburn

#12. By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

Bela Bartok

#13. 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

#14. I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

Paul Rand

#15. Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.

Paul De Man

#16. Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being ... It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#18. Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

Darrel Ray

#19. The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

John Ruskin

#20. There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.

George MacDonald

#21. 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

#22. Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

Gautama Buddha

#23. Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Jacob Bronowski

#24. Why are all gay men understanding and compassionate?"
"Pfft." I arced an eyebrow at her. "They're not, trust me. Its a myth."
"A straight man wouldn't understand cramps, mood swings, backaches, not to mention the price of tampons ...

Zathyn Priest

#25. Why the man had to have an entourage of ten people everywhere he went was beyond his scope of understanding. Most things about the Senator were.

Randall Wood

#26. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#27. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Rumi

#28. I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

J.K. Rowling

#29. God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Jacob Needleman

#30. When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man

Anonymous

#31. My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.

Stevie Wonder

#32. We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

John Morgridge

#33. I have ... an understanding. In England. His understanding with James Fraser was that if he were ever to lay a hand on the man or speak his heart, Fraser would break his neck instantly. It was, however, certainly an understanding, and clear as Waterford crystal.

Diana Gabaldon

#34. Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

Emma Goldman

#35. A man of purpose is a man on an assignment.
Its important not to rely on earthly gained knowledge; tap to Heavenly Wisdom & Understanding

Kinoti J.C.

#36. I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Djimon Hounsou

#37. It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

William Godwin

#38. Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

John Calvin

#39. Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

Alexander MacLaren

#40. She no longer fought out of fear for the man she loved. Instead, she fought with an understanding. She was a knife - Elend's knife, the Final Empire's knife.

Brandon Sanderson

#41. Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.

Gardiner Spring

#42. It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

Dustin Lance Black

#43. Words have divided man from woman,
one from another, this from that,
until only sages know how to put things together.
Without words, without even understanding,
lovers find each other.
The moment of finding is always a surprise,
like meeting an old friend never before known.

Laozi

#44. There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

Walter Raleigh

#45. 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