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 imperfect is our paradise."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Clarity is the courtesy of the philosopher."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Perfection is the enemy of completion."Stéphane Mallarmé
"In negation lies infinite possibility."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Every object contains infinite depths."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Meaning resides in what is left unsaid."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Nothing is truly complete until abandoned."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The absolute is found in the relative."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Mystery sustains life; clarity destroys it."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The greatest words are those never spoken."Stéphane Mallarmé
"One should eat to live, not live to eat."Molière
"The world is full of people who have stopped listening."Molière
"The mind has its limits, but human folly is boundless."Molière
"Better to appear foolish for a moment than to be foolish forever."Molière
"Anger is a brief madness that often costs us our truest desires."Molière
"To criticize is easier than to create; to destroy simpler than to build."Molière
"The world judges us not by our intentions but by our actions."Molière
"Knowledge puffs up, but wisdom builds up."Molière
"The greatest fool is he who knows not that he is a fool."Molière
"We are more often wrong than right, yet we persist in our convictions."Molière
"The voice of reason is often drowned out by the noise of passion."Molière
"Ambition without virtue is merely gilded corruption."Pierre Corneille
"I sought the absolute but found only fragments."Arthur Rimbaud
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."Paul Verlaine
"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp."Paul Verlaine
"The wise person knows what they don't know."Paul Verlaine
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."Voltaire
"Common sense is not so common."Voltaire
"The secret of being boring is to say everything."Voltaire
"Every perfect man has a defect: he is too perfect."Voltaire