To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
-
-
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOY -
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOY -
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY -
I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOY -
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
LEO TOLSTOY -
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
LEO TOLSTOY -
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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 -
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.
LEO TOLSTOY -
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOY -
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOY -
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOY







