Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Wisdom
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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.
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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.
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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.