The height of human wisdom

My favourite excerpt from War and Peace today was...


"Nothing has been found out, nothing discovered" Pierre again said to himself. "All we can know is that we know nothing.  And that is the height of human wisdom"


Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Book V, Chapter I

The necessary society of clever women

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women."”  


Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Book I, Chapter IV