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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"Great minds are related to the same truth."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is always a good use for every quality and attribute."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Conquer the world by intelligence, not by force."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True wealth lies not in abundance of possessions, but in abundance of contentment."Washington Irving
"The art of living well is the art of knowing what deserves your attention and what does not."Washington Irving
"Humility is not self-deprecation; it is the honest recognition of what we know and do not know."Washington Irving
"Much Madness is divinest Sense."Emily Dickinson
"The Admirations and Contempts of time is all I esteem."Emily Dickinson
"Precious Sentence."Emily Dickinson
"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."Edgar Allan Poe
"The most merciful thing in the world is the human mind's ability to not understand all it perceives."Edgar Allan Poe
"Wisdom whispers while foolishness shouts."Edgar Allan Poe
"Cautiousness is not cowardice; rather it is an expression of wisdom."Mark Twain
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."Mark Twain
"Cautiousness is not cowardice."Mark Twain
"Let us be thankful for the fools."Mark Twain
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."Mark Twain
"Noise proves nothing."Mark Twain
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind."Mark Twain
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."Walt Whitman
"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person."Walt Whitman
"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."Herman Melville
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."Herman Melville
"The human heart has hidden treasures."Herman Melville
"Misery is the company of greatness."Herman Melville
"The deepest truths are hidden in the darkest places."Herman Melville
"None are so fallible as those who are sure they are right."Herman Melville
"The man who has seen the world is better equipped to judge it than he who has merely read about it."James Fenimore Cooper
"The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to suppose one has none."James Fenimore Cooper
"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend."James Fenimore Cooper