“Learn what dwells in man, what is not given to man, and what men live by.”

— Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By (1881), Ch. 4

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”

“Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.”

“Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”

“I think that the reason to live is to learn.”