Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

• Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Christian, People

• Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Conceited, Understanding, Conceit

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

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

  Leo Tolstoy

  Appreciation, Art, Understanding

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

• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Feelings, Able

  "The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1890.

• Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Humanity, Obscure

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

• When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Understanding, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.794, e-artnow

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