When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

If you would judge, understand.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

What one fool can understand, another can.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.