Understand Him Quotes

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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. — Mary MacLane
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. — Phillips Brooks
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.… — Orson Scott Card
Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never… — Willa Cather
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him.… — Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May
I knew him, but I don't understand him. — Megan Hart
I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go… — Jim Butcher
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. — Washington Irving
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him. — Jose Saramago
To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him. — Cassandra Clare
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must… — Helen Rowland
You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you… — Nirmala Srivastava
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth… — Philip Sidney

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