4 Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Wisdom

Leo Tolstoy quotes on wisdom

39. Go - take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

42. The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, 'Learn what is not given to man.' 'What dwells in man' I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.

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.