Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Quote by Anton Chekhov
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
- Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.