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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  1. He’s an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you’re not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought. – Carroll Bryant
  5. Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace – Radhe Maa
  6. We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. – Walter Cronkite
  7. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes
  8. A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  11. Man does not live by bread alone. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Woe to the man who offends a small child! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. If God does not exist, everything is permitted. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated… – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  25. I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  27. Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who’re best able to decieve themselves. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  29. …there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  30. If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  31. The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  32. He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  33. I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  34. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  35. -¦but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur-¦ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  36. Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  37. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  38. I don’t need you to tell me I’m not well, though I don’t really know what’s wrong with me; I think I’m five times healthier than you are. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  39. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn’t want millions, but an answer to their questions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  40. Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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