Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Knowledge
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Several times I asked myself, 'Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?' And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.
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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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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.