Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Country

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

• Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Ideas

• It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Heart, Animal

• The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Book, Differences

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Book, Reading

• Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Book, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

• Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Years, Paris

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

• And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Light, Evil

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.656, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Book, Mountain

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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