Leo Tolstoy Important Quotations

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

The most important time is Now