10 Best Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
  • One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
  • The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
  • 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.
  • There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
  • 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.
  • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
  • Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
  • Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
  • Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.