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 two most important things are love and health."Kurt Vonnegut
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."J.D. Salinger
"The local is universal when observed with enough attention and care."William Carlos Williams
"Consciousness is three times blessed"Allen Ginsberg
"To gain the world you must lose the self"Allen Ginsberg
"The heart contains all the wisdom we need"Allen Ginsberg
"Wisdom is knowing what truly matters and acting accordingly"Allen Ginsberg
"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world."Wallace Stevens
"Connoisseurship is an accomplishment."Wallace Stevens
"We must be careful of the wrong word."Wallace Stevens
"One must have a mind of winter."Wallace Stevens
"Order the disorder of the fluid ocean."Wallace Stevens
"All things are reduced to one thing."Wallace Stevens
"Order is the pleasure of reason."Wallace Stevens
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."Jack Kerouac
"Desire is the seed of suffering in this life."Jack Kerouac
"The more you own, the more it owns you."Jack Kerouac
"The problem with the world is not that people are good or evil, but that they are asleep."Jack Kerouac
"The heart knows things the mind will never understand."Jack Kerouac
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."Jack Kerouac
"Omit needless words."Marianne Moore
"Perfection is too steep."Marianne Moore
"Clarity is essential, but must not be purchased at the price of depth."Marianne Moore
"Blessed is the man who does not read newspapers."Marianne Moore
"Restraint is the mark of true elegance."Marianne Moore
"Excess is the object of the rules which I lay down."Marianne Moore
"Ideas are dangerous things."Marianne Moore
"I delight in precision."Marianne Moore
"The mind creates a special kind of knowing."Marianne Moore
"The greatest eloquence is often silence."Marianne Moore