Leo Tolstoy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Leo Tolstoy quotes, Leo Tolstoy sayings, and Leo Tolstoy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy
One must be cunning and wicked in this world. Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Time is a perpetual motion, without a single moment of rest. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things. Leo Tolstoy
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.” Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. 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
All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions. 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
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
The cudgel of the people’s war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic might, and caring nothing for good taste and procedure, with dull-witted simplicity but sound judgement it rose and fell, making no distinctions. Leo Tolstoy
These men are looked upon as the most malevolent, the most dangerous, and generally as the most unbelieving of all human beings, and yet they are the only men of our time believing in the Gospel doctrine, if not as a whole, at least in part. 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
Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy
There never has been, and cannot be, a good life without self-control. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Leo Tolstoy
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! Leo Tolstoy
When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. Leo Tolstoy
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. Leo Tolstoy
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy