--- title: "13 Stupid Quotes By Leo Tolstoy" description: "13 Stupid quotes by Leo Tolstoy. Plus more from Leo Tolstoy and more Stupid sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/leo-tolstoy-55_abnormal_nietzsche-was-stupid-and-abnormal-223592_2235923.png" --- > [Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/nietzsche-was-stupid-and-abnormal/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/leo-tolstoy-55_abnormal_nietzsche-was-stupid-and-abnormal-223592_2235923.png) > [He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-liked-to-fish-he-seemed-to-take-pride-in-being-able-to-like-such-a/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8d/leo-tolstoy-55_able_he-liked-to-fish-he-seemed-to-take-pride_1565850.png) > [From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/from-the-self-confidence-with-which-he-spoke-no-one-could-tell/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c49/leo-tolstoy-55_clever_from-the-self-confidence-with-which-he-s_1390107.png) > [Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/because-of-the-self-confidence-with-which-he-had-spoken-no-one-could/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/leo-tolstoy-55_clever_because-of-the-self-confidence-with-whic_772664.png) > [He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-liked-fishing-and-seemed-to-take-pride-in-being-able-to-like-such/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/738/leo-tolstoy-55_able_he-liked-fishing-and-seemed-to-take-prid_2533162.png) > [When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/when-ignorance-does-not-know-something-it-says-that-what-it-does-not/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96c/leo-tolstoy-55_doe_when-ignorance-does-not-know-something-i_1904420.png) > [If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-a-man-does-not-work-at-necessary-and-good-things-then-he-will-work/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/leo-tolstoy-55_doe_if-a-man-does-not-work-at-necessary-and_2777484.png) > [After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/after-the-doctor-s-departure-koznyshev-felt-inclined-to-go-to-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf4/leo-tolstoy-55_able_after-the-doctor-s-departure-koznyshev-f_857674.jpg) > [It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-is-possible-to-live-only-as-long-as-life-intoxicates-us-once-we/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/leo-tolstoy-55_death_it-is-possible-to-live-only-as-long-as-l_1272979.png) > [It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-patriotism-as-a-feeling-is-bad/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/leo-tolstoy-55_clear_it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-pat_3038686.jpg) > [Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/memento-mori-remember-death-these-are-important-words-if-we-kept-in/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/leo-tolstoy-55_bad-thing_memento-mori-remember-death-these-are-im_1298729.jpg) > [It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-is-amazing-how-complete-is-the-delusion-that-beauty-is-goodness-a/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/leo-tolstoy-55_beauty_it-is-amazing-how-complete-is-the-delusi_2171151.png) > [The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-best-generals-i-have-known-were-stupid-or-absent-minded-men-not/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/leo-tolstoy-55_absence_the-best-generals-i-have-known-were-stup_3058138.jpg) ## Other authors on Stupid ## More by Leo Tolstoy > [These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/these-joys-were-so-trifling-as-to-be-as-imperceptible-as-grains-of/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-only-significance-of-life-consists-in-helping-to-establish-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-already-love-in-you-your-beauty-but-i-am-only-beginning-to-love-in/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/energy-rests-upon-love-and-come-as-it-will-there-s-no-forcing-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“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…](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 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For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-patriotism-as-a-feeling-is-bad/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/leo-tolstoy-55_clear_it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-pat_3038686.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/leo-tolstoy-55_clear_it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-pat_3038686.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/129/leo-tolstoy-55_clear_it-would-therefore-seem-obvious-that-pat_3038686.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is…” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Memento mori-remember death! 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