Quote

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

Leo Tolstoy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
Diarist
Esperantist
Essayist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Playwright
Prosaist
Writer
Tolstoi
Tolstoy
Lev Nikolaevich
graf Tolstoĭ
Lev Nikolayevich
Count Tolstoy
Count Lev Tolstoy
Leo
graf Tolstoy
Lev
Count Tolstoy
Lev
graf Tolsztoj
Лев Николаевич
c граф Толстой
Lew
graf Tolstoi
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Lev Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy
Perhaps
Important
Even
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Image
Enough or not...it will have to do
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
What am I coming for? he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. You know that I have come to be where you are, he said I can't help it.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The only purpose of education is freedom the only method is experience.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
Leo Tolstoy
Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father” or, “God is One, and also Three” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
Leo Tolstoy
Image
And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
Leo Tolstoy