Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist Russian 1821 – 1881

Russian novelist known for Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

373 quotes

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely accumulation."
Knowledge
"Happiness is found in the spaces between suffering."
Happiness
"Success is measured not in achievement but in growth."
Success
"Family bonds are both our greatest strength and deepest pain."
Family
"Perseverance is the art of continuing when all seems lost."
Perseverance
"Power wielded without compassion becomes tyranny."
Power
"Strength is revealed in our gentlest moments."
Strength
"The greatest philosophical question is not why we suffer, but how we bear it."
Philosophy
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
Life
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Beauty
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
Love
"The soul is healed by making others happy."
Kindness
"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."
Wisdom
"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."
Humor
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
Happiness
"Man can get used to anything, the scoundrel."
Philosophy
"Freedom without restraint is like a river without banks."
Freedom
"Debasement and self-degradation are almost never necessary for anything."
Strength
"I am a sentimental man. I need kindness."
Kindness
"Without suffering, what is the value of joy?"
Happiness
"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."
Art
"One can know a man from his laugh."
Humor
"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."
Philosophy
"To be conservative in one's old age is to be hopeless."
Change
"A man may sometimes be busy, but he is never too busy to make money."
Money
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Relationships
"Consciousness is a sickness."
Wisdom
"Every heart has its secrets."
Truth
"I swear by all that is sacred, I have always loved humanity, but I have grown to hate individual men."
Philosophy
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
Wisdom