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...”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

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

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

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”