#understand

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ↗

— George Savile

#evidence #give #little #make #men

Trying to understand women is a tall order period. ↗

— Rick Schroder

#period #tall #trying #understand #women

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#grounds #modesty #must #our #over

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#i #life #longer #make #sentence

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#any #appear #current #day #error

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better. ↗

— Jane Rule

#beautiful way #better #craft #else #far

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#another #bunny #character #easter #get

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#actually #been #coach #elizabethan #imagine

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

#first #great #great man #hesitation #his