Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Leo Tolstoy.
Top 25 Leo Tolstoy Quotes and Sayings
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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.
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.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
If you want to be happy, be.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.