Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Anton Chekhov
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About Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said…
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
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.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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.
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 characteri…
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
There is nothing new in art except talent.