More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
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.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
