Understanding

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party