Leo Tolstoy

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

Leo Tolstoy

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Leo Tolstoy

Read less, study less, but think more.

Leo Tolstoy

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Leo Tolstoy

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Leo Tolstoy

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Leo Tolstoy

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Leo Tolstoy