Leo Tolstoy

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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 of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy