quote of the day

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

• A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

• Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

• The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds.

• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible

• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

• The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up