If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy
“If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.”
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
—Charles Darwin
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
—Franz Kafka
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
—Ernest Hemingway
“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Instead of saying, I would omit prayer if I could, the regenerate mind cries, I wish I could be always praying.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.
—Miyamoto Musashi
I am I, and I wish I weren’t.
—Aldous Huxley
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
—Charles Dickens
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar
Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not.
You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
—Julius Caesar
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
—Seneca
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..
—Henry David Thoreau
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
—Mark Twain
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
—Julius Caesar
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
—Charles Darwin
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
—Leonardo Da Vinci