“Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.” -Leo Tolstoy

Question

What does it mean?

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Answer 1

My interpretation is this: people can say something is important to them, but they won’t know whether it’s truly important until they’ve proven it to themselves through their actions. If you believe in addressing the homeless crisis, and then the government proposes building a homeless shelter in your neighborhood, do you vote for it or against it? If you vote against it because you’re worried about your property values going down, you don’t truly believe in resolving the homeless crisis as much as you did before it required sacrifice.