Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Topics: Conceit Quotes

The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to...

The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to...

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very...

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to...

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to...

Boredom: the desire for desires

Boredom: the desire for desires

Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister

Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange...

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange...

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly...

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly...

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the...

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its...

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

If you want to be happy, be.

If you want to be happy, be.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make...

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices...

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins