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 measure of a society is how it treats the vulnerable."Austin Clarke
"Everything is worth nothing to me except what cannot be kept."Fernando Pessoa
"To be great, one must first understand smallness."Fernando Pessoa
"Wisdom lies in knowing how little we truly know."Fernando Pessoa
"Boredom is the price of understanding too much."Fernando Pessoa
"Melancholy is the color of all true understanding."Fernando Pessoa
"Knowledge without wisdom is merely the accumulation of facts in an empty vessel."John Banville
"The human heart is a mystery even to itself, forever surprising us with its depths."John Banville
"A man's virtue is often the fruit of his vices."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Memory is the art of selective forgetting."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of madness."José María de Eça de Queirós
"We mistake habit for happiness and tradition for truth."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Wisdom whispers while folly shouts."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The most powerful things in life are often the simplest."Padraig Colum
"To understand another is to expand one's own understanding of life."Padraig Colum
"The simplest wisdom is often the hardest to practice."Padraig Colum
"All of us are mad, just in different ways, and it's this difference that saves us from absolute madness."Saramago
"Wisdom whispers while folly shouts."Luís de Camões
"Innocence is a kind of insanity"Patrick Kavanagh
"The only way out of the labyrinth is through understanding"Patrick Kavanagh
"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know"Patrick Kavanagh
"To be great, one must first learn to be small."Fernando Pessoa
"I have learned more from my failures than from any success."Fernando Pessoa
"The world reveals itself only to those who stop trying to possess it."John Banville
"The heart understands what the mind cannot grasp."John Banville
"To understand is to forgive, but not always."John Banville
"Wisdom comes from the wounds we've survived."John Banville
"The world is a theater where mediocrity always finds its audience."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The wise man knows that wisdom is an illusion."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The wisest man is he who knows he is a fool."José María de Eça de Queirós