What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.