Dostoevsky Quote by Dostoevsky Download Open image ““I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.”” — Dostoevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dostoevsky Karamazov-brothers
“A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This Humanist whom no belief constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't look for the precise and local. Simply; do not be narrow minded.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
“I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Corrupt and often cruel in his lust, like some noxious insect, Fyodor Pavlovitch was sometimes, in moments of drunkenness,overcome by superstitious terror and a… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You ask yourself: where are your dreams now? And you shake your head and say how swiftly the years fly by! And you ask… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Two times two is four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.” — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and--look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming… — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
