"People with new ideas, people with the..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”

“I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.”

“All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.”

“Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.”

“Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”

“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”