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Leo Tolstoy quotes about thinking

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was unable to perceive his wisdom; but as soon as I said to myself, he's stupid (only in a whisper of course), it all became quite clear! Don't you think so?' 'How malicious you are to-day!' 'Not at all. I have no choice. One of us is stupid, and you know it's impossible to say so of oneself. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of..."
Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of..."
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! Leo Tolstoy
Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this word?' he said, pointing to the "n' that signified the word "never." .... She wrote: t, I, c, g, n, o, a. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry..."
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. Leo Tolstoy
Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what..."
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. Leo Tolstoy
But what is chance? What is genius? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance. I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius. To a heard of rams, that... Leo Tolstoy
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking... Leo Tolstoy
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately in words, loses its meaning, is horribly debased when only one of the links, of which it forms a part, is taken by itself. But the interlinking of these ideas is not, I think, an intellectual process, but something else, and it is impossible to express the source of this interlinking directly in... Leo Tolstoy
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I? Leo Tolstoy
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same..."
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me Leo Tolstoy
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo Tolstoy

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