52 Quotations by Count Leo Tolstoy
- 1. A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti ...
- 2. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of hi ...
- 3. A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workin ...
- 4. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- 5. And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them th ...
- 6. Boredom: the desire for desires.
- 7. But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
- 8. Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state ...
- 9. Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
- 10. Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
- 11. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- 12. Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- 13. Faith is the force of life.
- 14. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- 15. He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
- 16. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid ...
- 17. I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
- 18. I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I ...
- 19. I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
- 20. I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I ...
Count Leo Tolstoy Quotes by Power Quotations
|