Leo Tolstoy

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.