Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots. . . in fact I think they have to be. . . a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.
Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.
I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.
. . . fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God.
