Category Quotations

Leo Tolstoy Says: “By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy;…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “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.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “A man’s every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”