"One could never judge a man without..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.”
“We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.”
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”
More on Judgment
“Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.”
“Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.”
“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
More on Understanding
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
“There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.”
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”