Dalai Lama Quotes

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

Progress is the mother of problems.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.