Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

In your heart you know he's right.

I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.

That's the best way to live your life: Don't listen to what other people think. Just follow your heart.

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn't kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.

You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small voices are heard only by those who are willing to listen.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you're at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.