Quotes About Understanding

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.

In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.

A friendship has no guidelines.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.