Leo Tolstoy Quotes

• Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Death

• I think… 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

  Topics in Love

• Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in People

• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

• The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Stories, Books

• We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Degree, Human

• Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Depend

• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Goodness

• What strange illusion it is to suppose that beautiful is god.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Beautiful

• If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational, Motivational

  Tags in Happiness, Want, Happy

• Everybody wants to change the world but nobody wants to change.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Change

• Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Leo Tolstoy

• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

• War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

  Leo Tolstoy

• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Wisdom

• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

  Leo Tolstoy

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

• There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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