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War and Peace Quotes |
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
Everything I know, I know because of love.
Leo Tolstoy
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
Leo Tolstoy
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo Tolstoy
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Leo Tolstoy
Everything depends on upbringing.
Leo Tolstoy
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo Tolstoy
There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...
Leo Tolstoy
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
Leo Tolstoy
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo Tolstoy
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
Leo Tolstoy
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
Leo Tolstoy
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
Leo Tolstoy
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
Leo Tolstoy
God is the same everywhere.
Leo Tolstoy
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Leo Tolstoy
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
Leo Tolstoy
Kings are the slaves of history.
Leo Tolstoy
When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
Leo Tolstoy
There are such repulsive faces in the world.
Leo Tolstoy
It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Leo Tolstoy
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
Leo Tolstoy
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
Leo Tolstoy
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
Leo Tolstoy
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
Leo Tolstoy
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Leo Tolstoy