Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Consider the following quotes by Leo Tolstoy:
"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made lear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
-- Leo Tolstoy