5 Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Knowledge

Leo Tolstoy quotes on knowledge

47. 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.

119. Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

128. The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

129. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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