13 Literary Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

13 Literary Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Literary Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You to Live a Better Life and Keep Learning

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.”

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

“A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.”

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

“I know that you don’t believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through.

You will live it down in time.

What you need is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air.”

“You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentlemen.”

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then… Well, then I woke up.”

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.”

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

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

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