Books Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the…

— Philip Wylie

“I know very well you can't help me," he said. "But I tell you, because unsuccessful and superfluous people like me find their salvation…

— Anton Chekhov

“I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief…

— Noah Gordon

“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.”

— Tove Jansson