Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

James Whistler

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Menander

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Martin Luther

• Man

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Inspirational
• Laughter
• Suffering
• Famous

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

Andre Agassi

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Joan of Arc

• Self-discovery

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

Gloria Estefan

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Aeschylus

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

David Letterman

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Sophocles

The good man is the teacher of the bad and the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, or greatly care for the material, is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Lao-Tzu

• Learning
• Mystery

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

• Power

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.

Isaac Mizrahi

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare