Knows Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

God knows, but He's waiting

— Leo Tolstoy

“God knows of love”

— Leo Tolstoy

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

— Leo Tolstoy

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

— Leo Tolstoy

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

— Leo Tolstoy

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves…

— Leo Tolstoy

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

— Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

— Leo Tolstoy

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

— Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

— Leo Tolstoy

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which…

— Leo Tolstoy

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

— Leo Tolstoy

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'…

— Leo Tolstoy

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal,…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something…

— Leo Tolstoy

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she…

— Leo Tolstoy

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You…

— Leo Tolstoy

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that…

— Leo Tolstoy

The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon…

— Leo Tolstoy

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

— Leo Tolstoy

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will…

— Leo Tolstoy

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine…

— Leo Tolstoy

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most…

— Leo Tolstoy

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not…

— Leo Tolstoy

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is…

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy