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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"Where there is recklessness there is sure to be error."Samuel Johnson
"I am malicious because I am miserable."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Men are not monsters by nature; something makes them so."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Virtue lies not in abstinence but in wisdom."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What we refuse to acknowledge often destroys us."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The most profound truths are often the simplest."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Silence can be more eloquent than words."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."William Blake
"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."William Blake
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."William Blake
"The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God."William Blake
"The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure."William Blake
"The lowest trees have tops that the highest peaks can never know."Christina Rossetti
"What is the beginning of wisdom? The fear of the Lord, and the end is love."Christina Rossetti
"In every sorrow, there is a lesson waiting to be learned."Christina Rossetti
"Wisdom consists not in having great knowledge, but in knowing what matters."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Wit is a dangerous commodity in the hands of the weak."Aphra Behn
"Fortune favors the bold, but wisdom favors the careful."Aphra Behn
"The heart speaks a language that reason cannot understand."Aphra Behn
"To understand others, we must first understand ourselves."Aphra Behn
"The greatest wisdom is knowing what you do not know."Aphra Behn
"The greatest wisdom lies in understanding our own desires."Eliza Haywood
"A woman who thinks for herself threatens the foundations of mediocrity."Eliza Haywood
"To accept one's flaws is to begin transcending them."Eliza Haywood
"To doubt is to think; to think is to transcend."Eliza Haywood
"Wisdom whispers while folly shouts."Eliza Haywood
"To question is to reclaim one's agency."Eliza Haywood
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."Jonathan Swift
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."Jonathan Swift
"Wisdom is not purchasable by gold."Jonathan Swift