When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
