Understandings Quotes

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

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

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.