Logo
Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by wash

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
Love
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read Quote

Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
Body
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read Quote

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
Helping
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Truth

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
Truth

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. – Voltaire

Category:
Truth

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You cant limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. – Dean Smith

Category:
Courage

Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. – Kin Hubbard

Category:
Money

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. – Orrin Hatch

Category:
Graduation

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. – W. Somerset Maugham

Category:
Nature