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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"The mark of wisdom is knowing what not to say as well as what to say."
Saramago
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"Wisdom is purchased dearly through experience and reflection."
Luís de Camões
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"The world is a stage for those who know how to perform upon it with grace and intelligence."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Everything is worth nothing to those who understand everything."
Fernando Pessoa
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"I have the ability to feel everything and do nothing."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Wisdom is the ability to recognize one's own lack of wisdom."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The only real alienation is the failure to understand."
Fernando Pessoa
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"I seek nothing. I find everything."
Fernando Pessoa
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"To be intelligent is to be lonely."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The moment I understand something, I no longer need it."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Aquele que compreende a si mesmo compreende toda a humanidade."
Almeida Garrett
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"A verdadeira sabedoria sabe o que não sabe."
Almeida Garrett
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"Wisdom comes from listening more than speaking."
Padraig Colum
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"Wisdom whispers; foolishness shouts."
Padraig Colum
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"The world is an interpretation, not a fact."
John Banville
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"Every gesture conceals a mystery."
John Banville
J
"Silence contains more truth than words."
John Banville
J
"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
John Banville
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"The heart knows reasons that reason itself cannot comprehend."
Luís de Camões
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"Wisdom comes not from avoiding mistakes, but from surviving them."
Eça de Queirós
E
"The pursuit of happiness often masks the avoidance of meaning."
Eça de Queirós
E
"Wisdom knows what not to do, not just what to do."
Eça de Queirós
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"Blindness is not just the absence of sight, but the absence of vision."
Saramago
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"We are all blind until we see with our hearts."
Saramago
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"We are all capable of cruelty, and that knowledge should humble us."
Saramago
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"Knowledge accumulates, but wisdom must be earned."
Saramago
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"Silence is sometimes the most powerful form of speech."
Saramago
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"Silence often speaks louder than a thousand eloquent words."
Luís de Camões
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"The scholar who ceases to learn becomes the servant of yesterday's knowledge."
Luís de Camões
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"Memory is the beginning of wisdom."
Austin Clarke