Quotes - Sarac (saracynical) (New York, NY) Showing 1-30 of 99

#1

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

tags: change, tolstoy

12561 likes

#2

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: war

1244 likes

#3

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#4

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#5

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#6

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

3687 likes

#7

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom

3571 likes

#8

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#9

“Music is the shorthand of emotion”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#10

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5740 likes

#11

“Love those you hate you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: hate, inspirational, love

379 likes

#12

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, truth, youth

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#13

“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: ignorant, men, noble

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#14

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: soul, souls

1833 likes

#15

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying

1139 likes

#16

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

5645 likes

#17

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

11810 likes

#18

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

9154 likes

#19

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#20

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: life, philosophy, wisdom

1448 likes

#21

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6693 likes

#22

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: honesty, integerity

1667 likes

#23

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1168 likes

#24

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

1132 likes

#25

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

1724 likes

#26

“Without God all things are permitted.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: god, religion

302 likes

#27

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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