Thinking Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

— Leo Tolstoy

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

— Leo Tolstoy

Read less, study less, but think more

— Leo Tolstoy

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

— Leo Tolstoy

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

— Leo Tolstoy

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

— 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…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The…

— Leo Tolstoy

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So…

— Leo Tolstoy

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.…

— Leo Tolstoy

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life…

— Leo Tolstoy

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one…

— Leo Tolstoy

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their…

— Leo Tolstoy

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could…

— Leo Tolstoy

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man…

— Leo Tolstoy

Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.…

— Leo Tolstoy

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station…

— Leo Tolstoy

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move…

— Leo Tolstoy

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now…

— Leo Tolstoy

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world…

— Leo Tolstoy

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove…

— Leo Tolstoy

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not…

— 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

Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position…

— Leo Tolstoy