Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Topic: Blood
Author: Leo Tolstoy
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
Topic: Change
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Topic: Errors
Author: Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
Topic: God
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Topic: Growth
Author: Leo Tolstoy
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
Topic: History
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Topic: History
Author: Leo Tolstoy
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Topic: Love
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Topic: Mystery
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Topic: Questions
Author: Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy.
Topic: Service
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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