Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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