It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.