QN POSTS QUOTES FOR TODAY.. EXERCISE YOUR SELF.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is 
the problem." -- Stephen Covey

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the 
overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller

QN'S FAV QUOTES FROM MASTER EINSTEIN:

"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." 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." 

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

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." 

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." 

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." 

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

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 
eighteen." 

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." 

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates 
empirically." 

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday 
thinking." 

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological 
criminal." 

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by 
understanding." 

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used 
when we created them." 

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he 
learned in school."
 
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its 
own reason for existing." 

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm 
not sure about the the universe." 

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and 
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." 

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World 
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." 

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's 
no risk of accident for someone who's dead." 

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a 
cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans 
themselves." 

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable 
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able 
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." 

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of 
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. 
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." 

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is 
the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion 
is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in 
awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." 

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. 
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that 
the distinction between past, present, and future is only a 
stubbornly persistent illusion." 

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, 
whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring 
effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found 
the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an 
entire year." 

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part 
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and 
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical 
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for 
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few 
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this 
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living 
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."