I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
-
-
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOY -
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 -
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOY -
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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 -
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
LEO TOLSTOY -
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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 -
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOY -
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOY -
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY -
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOY -
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY