Leo Tolstoy Quotes

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
-Leo Tolstoy

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

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

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
-Leo Tolstoy

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

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Leo Tolstoy in Family quotes.

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

"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."
-Leo Tolstoy

"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."
-Leo Tolstoy

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

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
-Leo Tolstoy

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

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-Leo Tolstoy

"If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it."
-Leo Tolstoy

"Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless."
-Leo Tolstoy

"She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth."
-Leo Tolstoy