understanding Quotes

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Time discovers truth.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.