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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.


Leo Tolstoy

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only o...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever k...
GORE VIDAL To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, a...
ANNE RICE But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL თანამედროვე დროს აუცილებელია დათმო გ...
LEO TOLSTOY We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER F. DRUCKER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy
CHRISTINE PORATH Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN My method of equitation consists in distribution of weight by the height of the neck bent at the pol...
ANONYMOUS Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
LORD BYRON They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of...
DAVID SEDARIS Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO We are but specks in "this" universe and compared to all that can be known - know nothing.
RONALD R. SLAUGHTER II In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...
LEO TOLSTOY The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATES All that we know is all that we have seen but what we have not seen is more than we can ever know
EMANOUHL Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the ...
JOEL CARMICHAEL I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller...
ROBERT LUDLUM An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all ...
NADèGE RICHARDS You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
UNKNOWN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature'...
CRISS JAMI To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.
CONFUCIUS It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't kn...
ALI SMITH Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS When we think we know it all; we obviously know nothing because education has no end.
ETC WANYANWU You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? Th...
JAMIE LEE ALBERT MASTERS Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
JOHN RZEZNIK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If you are looking for happiness, then you know nothing about it at all.
VIKRANT PARSAI Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have ...
ANDREW MURRAY Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely....
DAN SMITH All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing...
LEO TOLSTOY If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that...
LEO TOLSTOY The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.
LEO TOLSTOY All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,0...
PETER DIAMANDIS That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in ano...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in anot...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know dee...
JORGE LUIS BORGES I know his intent of the speech is that we all work together. And I know we will.
KATHLEEN WALSH How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look int...
R. J. CAMPBELL Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ...
DAVID LEVITHAN Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
JOHN CHEEVER All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t...
D. H. LAWRENCE All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t...
D.H. LAWRENCE All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.
ASH VAZ That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...
PHILIPUS AUREOLUS PARACELSUS Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that...
YOKO ONO That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
JOHN STUART MILL That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
JOHN STUART MILL A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
MARK TWAIN We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another ...
AYN RAND We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our sp...
TARUN BETALA I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
SWAMI SIVANANDA We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.
CHUCK PAGANO We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the ke...
G.K. CHESTERTON We are all confident, and we know we can win.
JEFF SEAMAN Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
PATRICK SWAYZE We know, and they know, that we can beat them.
SOURAV GANGULY We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived t...
MICHAEL POLLAN If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is ...
BROOKE SWEAT We all know that this issue is so volatile that anything can happen.
FRANK SHARRY It is starting to become contagious. You know, the feeling kind of spreads throughout everyone. All ...
MARK WOLESLAGLE As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
SOCRATES

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LEO TOLSTOY But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOY In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp...
LEO TOLSTOY But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY