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The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to…

— Vera Farmiga

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because…

— Ellen Key

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

— Charlotte Brontë

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the…

— Allison Pearson

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

— Pliny the Elder

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority…

— David Hume

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what…

— Vera Farmiga