“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more
You May Also Like
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Source: The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
Source: Essays, letters, miscellanies
Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910