Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Quotes and Sayings


Leo Tolstoy Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ~Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ~Leo Tolstoy