Quotes about Understanding
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
- Ezra Taft Benson
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
- Francois Rabelais
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
- Margaret Fuller
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.
- Mark Twain
S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?
- Mark Twain
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
- Mark Twain
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther