#standing

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#understanding #wife #marriage

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#hatred #understanding #love

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#understanding #men

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ↗

— Christine de Pisan

#just #men #sharper #softer #than

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. ↗

— Jean Renoir

#reason #reasoning #reasons #understanding #motivational

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#knowledge #nature #power #understanding #wisdom

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#understanding #communication

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#humanity #science #understanding #science

We understand more than we know. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#science #understanding #wisdom #science

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket. ↗

— Frank Stallone

#big #came #disturbing #done #guitar