We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree …

Leo Tolstoy
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.348, Vintage
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.348, Vintage

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