A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Leo Tolstoy

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Discovered Knew New Nothing Nothing New Only Perceived

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

Maurice de Vlaminck

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.

Jay Asher

I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.

Cesare Pavese

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Douglas Adams

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

Saskia de Brauw

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

Cliff Richard

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Aphra Behn

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Aphra Behn

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Jacqueline Winspear

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

Anne Rice

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Janos Bolyai

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

Ezra Pound

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.