A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. -Leo Tolstoy

 

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.


-Leo Tolstoy
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This quote is just one of 18 total Leo Tolstoy quotes in our collection. Leo Tolstoy is known for saying 'A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy