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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

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

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 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.

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

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”

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