More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy
