Wisdom Quotes
The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.
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"Ser sábio é conhecer a si mesmo."Almeida Garrett
"Every word we speak echoes into eternity."Alexandre Herculano
"Wisdom whispers to those patient enough to listen."Alexandre Herculano
"The future belongs not to the strongest, but to the most thoughtful."Alexandre Herculano
"The heart's wisdom often contradicts the mind's logic, and therein lies truth."Alexandre Herculano
"Every scar upon the heart teaches a lesson the mind could never learn."Camilo Castelo Branco
"The mind that cannot admit error is a prison unto itself."Camilo Castelo Branco
"Wisdom is knowing which battles to abandon."Camilo Castelo Branco
"The greatest folly is to mistake the shadow for the substance."Ludovico Ariosto
"The heart knows secrets that reason cannot fathom."Ludovico Ariosto
"A wise person questions their own wisdom."Ludovico Ariosto
"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."Petrarch
"If little knowledge is dangerous, where is the one who has so much as to be out of danger?"Petrarch
"Better a little certainty than a great deal of conjecture."Petrarch
"A man of wisdom makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows public opinion."Petrarch
"The man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well."Petrarch
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."Petrarch
"The greatest good is the agreement of the mind with itself."Petrarch
"The highest form of knowledge is empathy."Petrarch
"The greatest revelation is silence."Petrarch
"Virtue is not given by age, nor is age a sign of virtue."Petrarch
"The path to enlightenment is paved with questions, not answers."Petrarch
"The human soul is a mirror that reflects the world as it truly is, not as we wish it to be."Ramalho Ortigão
"Wisdom whispers while foolishness shouts; most choose to listen to the louder voice."Ramalho Ortigão
"The loudest voices often have the least to say; listen instead to the quiet ones."Ramalho Ortigão
"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous accumulation; wisdom without action is sterile."Ramalho Ortigão
"The mind without discipline is like a ship without a rudder in stormy seas."Torquato Tasso
"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."Niccolò Machiavelli
"The wise man does not give the right answer, he poses the right question."Niccolò Machiavelli
"The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves."Niccolò Machiavelli