• The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

    Leo Tolstoy: The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
    R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910”, p.178, Faber & Faber