Famous Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Below are famous quotes by Leo Tolstoy - Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910).

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

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