Development Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“quoting Tolstoy: “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and…

— James Gleick

“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the ‘power’ or…

— Isaiah Berlin

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

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman

“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a…

— William Ernest Henley

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“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

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he”

— Brandt Legg

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

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