The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
The mind was not given to us for understanding the inexplicable, but to avoid stumbling upon the trees.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising.
And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.