“Leo Tolstoy observes, “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”6” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy” — Beth Kanter Copy Share Image
“If you want to be happy, be" -- Leo Tolstoy "The hard part is knowing it's easy" -- Abraham Hicks” — Ina Zajac Copy Share Image
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Leo Tolstoy Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.” — Pravin K. Shah Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in Old Rimrock, NJ, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and… — Joel Carmichael Copy Share Image
I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“It was a truth that Leo Tolstoy declaimed a century or so ago: our response to art has the agency to do… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy” — Christine Porath Copy Share Image
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano.… — Velimir Khlebnikov Copy Share Image
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
![“I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating…” quote by Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a15/mel-brooks-2308_character_i-started-with-leo-tolstoy-and-i-was-ove_378838.jpg)
![“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century…” quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab7/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_russian-literature_fyodor-mikhailovich-dostoevsky-november_624363.jpg)
![“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about…” quote by Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24f/gary-shteyngart-2177_future_there-s-no-present-left-this-is-the-prob_3224050.jpg)