Understanding

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides