Famous Quotes / Count Leo Tolstoy
52 Quotations by Count Leo Tolstoy
- 21. In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ...
- 22. In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that th ...
- 23. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- 24. Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life o ...
- 25. Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of h ...
- 26. Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori ...
- 27. Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- 28. Only those live who do good.
- 29. The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army comman ...
- 30. The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ...
- 31. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem ...
- 32. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem ...
- 33. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app ...
- 34. The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
- 35. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
- 36. The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible and to serve others ...
- 37. The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh ...
- 38. The strongest of all warriors are these two -- time and patience.
- 39. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
- 40. There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.