Leo Tolstoy

Russian

About Leo Tolstoy

Russian novelist and philosopher who wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and whose later spiritual essays shaped Tolstoyanism.

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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.
Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy