Creative Quotations from . . .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881) born on
Nov 11
Russian novelist. "He was noted for his powerful realistic novels of psychology, e.g., "Crime and Punishment," 1866; "The Idiot," 1869."
 
   
F
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days."

R
"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
A
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
N
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
K
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Alyosha Karamazov, in "The Brothers Karamazov," vol. 2, "Epilogue," sct. 3, 1880."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "Ivan Ivanovich, in "Bobok," in "A Writer's Diary," 1873."
K: "In "What A Piece of Work is Man!," by Wesley D. Camp, 1990."



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