“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy · Wisdom quote

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy quote card
Writer · 1828 – 1910

Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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