One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Quote by Anton Chekhov
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
- When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
- Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- 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.
- When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Best Quotes
- War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
- A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
- Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
- If there is a man to pray, There is a God to answer.