wisdom Quotes

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.