Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

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

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

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

I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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

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.

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Anna smiled, as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.