--- title: "4 Questions Quotes By Leo Tolstoy" description: "4 Questions quotes by Leo Tolstoy. Plus more from Leo Tolstoy and more Questions sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ef/leo-tolstoy-55_confused_remember-that-there-is-only-one-importan_1370904.png" --- > [“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/remember-that-there-is-only-one-important-time-and-that-is-now-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ef/leo-tolstoy-55_confused_remember-that-there-is-only-one-importan_1370904.png) > [What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/what-is-bad-what-is-good-what-should-one-love-what-hate-why-live-and-2/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/leo-tolstoy-55_answers_what-is-bad-what-is-good-what-should-one_1452853.jpg) > [“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/all-such-questions-as-for-instance-of-the-cause-of-failure-of-crops/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/leo-tolstoy-55_bureaucracy_all-such-questions-as-for-instance-of-th_1923643.png) > [“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-was-long-before-i-could-believe-that-human-learning-had-no-clear/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ef/leo-tolstoy-55_ignorance_it-was-long-before-i-could-believe-that_2419633.jpg) ## Other authors on Questions - [Shannon L. 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My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-you-only-knew-what-those-society-women-are-and-women-in-general-my/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-evoke-in-oneself-a-feeling-one-has-once-experienced-and-having/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-speak-of-it-would-be-giving-importance-to-that-which-has-none/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/once-we-re-thrown-off-our-habitual-paths-we-think-all-is-lost-but-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-knew-she-was-there-by-the-rapture-and-the-terror-that-seized-on/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/rest-nature-books-music-such-is-my-idea-of-happiness/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-was-not-to-blame-for-being-born-with-an-irrepressible-charachter/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-ask-one-thing-only-i-ask-for-the-right-to-hope-to-suffer-as-i-do/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-idea-shared-by-many-that-life-is-a-vale-of-tears-is-just-as-false/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-say-that-a-work-of-art-is-good-but-incomprehensible-to-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [True life is lived when tiny changes occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/true-life-is-lived-when-tiny-changes-occur/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/questions/leo-tolstoy/#itemlist", "name": "4 Questions Quotes By Leo Tolstoy", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. 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