Quotes About Understanding

Violence is not the way.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

Life is a question in the form of an answer

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.