https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:57:45 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/dostoyevsky-fyodor/49127/ https://wist.info/dostoyevsky-fyodor/49127/#respond Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:42:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49127 We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian novelist
The Idiot, Part 3, ch. 3 (1869) [tr. Martin (1915)]

Another translation: "Don't let us forget that the motives of human actions are usually infinitely more complex and varied than we are apt to explain them afterwards, and can rarely be defined with certainty." [tr. Magarshack (1955)] ]]> https://wist.info/dostoyevsky-fyodor/49127/feed/ 0 49127