Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983.

• When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Ignorance, Doe

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Military, Ignorance, Discipline

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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