Leo Tolstoy

Influencing others

Published September 11, 2022 · All posts on Sep 11

The possibility of influencing others causes a person with high morals to be more strict about his words and actions which could influence other people.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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False ideas

Published September 6, 2022 · All posts on Sep 6

False ideas which gain currency can easily be recognized by the loud fanfare with which they are accompanied. Real truth does not need any other embellishments.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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A bad example

Published September 2, 2022 · All posts on Sep 2

Nothing is more harmful than a bad example set by others. They bring into our life notions which never would have occurred to us without an example.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Other people’s thoughts

Published August 28, 2022 · All posts on Aug 28

For the most part, false and harmful opinions are distributed and supported by influence. We are too likely to accept the views and thoughts of other people without trying to investigate them deeper and further ourselves. Unimportant people are those who accept other people’s thoughts without developing them themselves.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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The causes of evil

Published August 18, 2022 · All posts on Aug 18

Look for the causes of the evil from which you suffer in yourself. Sometimes this evil is the direct consequence of your activity; Sometimes it happens after a lengthy period of transformation of an evil which you committed long ago. But the source is always in you, and salvation from it lies in changes in your actions, your way of life.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Already knowing

Published March 31, 2021 · All posts on Mar 31

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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