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Wisest Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
- Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the…
- The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
- Is it possible to say what one really feels?
- Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
- Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
- What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
- Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and…
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- The wisest of the wise may err. — Aeschylus
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- The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
- Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful… — Richard Cecil
- The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. — Geoffrey Chaucer
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for… — Maya Angelou
- I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. — Maya Angelou
- It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand… — Reuben Archer Torrey
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves… — Thomas Jefferson
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson