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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

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.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I only act from my heart.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

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.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.