understanding Quotes

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.