Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Top 25 Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes and Sayings
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
The soul is healed by being with children.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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.