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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 4

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Read less, study less, but think more

Read less, study less, but think more

Inspirational, Thinking, Study

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

Men, Thinking, Order

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU (One of the Most Influential Books on Nonviolent Resistance, Christianity & Inner Fate): What It Means To Be A True Christian At Heart – Crucial Book for Understanding Tolstoyan, Nonviolent Resistance and Christian Anarchist Movements”, p.146, e-artnow

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Patience, Two, Waiting

"War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels".

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Stupid, Ignorance, Doe

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Inspiring, Graduation, Ifs

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

Mad, Responsible, Seeing

graf Leo Tolstoy (1947). “Resurrection”

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Love, Life, Mean

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1098, Wizio Publishing

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

War, Would Be, Conviction

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, Xist Publishing

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

Taken, Anxiety, Preparation

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.164, The Floating Press

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Love, Respect, Empty Places

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2002, ReadHowYouWant.com

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Love, Life And Love, Love You

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.55, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Doe, Lambs, Cry

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Men, Historical, Violence

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Men, Revolution, Moral

graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Christian, Thinking, World

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Regret, Pleasure

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Solitude, Debate, Truth Is

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Real, Book, Differences

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Life, Perfect, Looks

Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

There's a way out of every situation.

Way, Circumstances, Situation

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition): Official Tie-in Edition Including the screenplay by Tom Stoppard”, p.508, Vintage

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

Faith, Inspiration, Add

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Inspirational, Life, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Attention, Talent, Capacity

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

People, Terrible, Knowing God

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.5, 1909.

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