Knows Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me… If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by…

— Ivan Turgenev

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important…

— Lev Shestov

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

— A. N. Wilson

“There are no superstitions but those you invent”

— Jack Lasenby

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

— Henry Allingham

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would…

— Henry James

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

— Robert Scholes

If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an…

— Paul Neilan