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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
flight, highest, in flight, know nothing, take flight
«It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
endear, endeared, endearing, endears
«Music is the shorthand of emotion.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Emotion,
Music
| Keywords:
emotion, shorthand
«Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.»
«The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
vocation, vocations
«In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
cease, name of God, The name
«Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
association, Association of, The Association, U.S. government, violence
«It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
advanced, has-been, suffered