Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
Leo TolstoyReason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.
Leo TolstoyHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo TolstoyTrue art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.
Leo TolstoyThe most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy