Desire Quote by Jeremy Aldana

If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

— Maurice Blondel

“Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight…

— Michel de Montaigne

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

“You'll never really understand a person, until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around…

— Haper Lee

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art…

— John Locke

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

— Stephen Covey

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what…

— William Hazlitt

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti