Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I seek the truth.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The words of truth are simple.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Nature admits no lie.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.