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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"Thought and feeling blend to form one substance."
Robert Browning
"Wonder's no Wonder when the Wonderful's gone."
Robert Browning
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
Robert Browning
"Less is more in art and life alike."
Robert Browning
"Wisdom without virtue is like a sword in the hand of a drunkard."
Robert Browning
A
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A
"Wisdom comes not from knowing all the answers, but from asking better questions."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
D
"We are all prisoners of our own desires."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"The pursuit of perfection often destroys the perfect."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"The heart recognizes what the mind refuses to acknowledge."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"The soul's hunger cannot be satisfied by material things."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"We are shaped not by what happens to us, but how we respond."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
D
"The heart's logic defies all reason."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
H
"It is a remarkable thing to observe that the most insignificant things often contain the greatest wisdom."
Hans Christian Andersen
H
"Words are free, yet they are the costliest things in the world."
Hans Christian Andersen
S
"The path to wisdom begins with humility."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"Wisdom comes from experience and reflection."
Selma Lagerlöf
"To understand oneself is the greatest wisdom."
Robert Browning
S
"In the present age, a spurious form of greatness has taken the place of true greatness."
Søren Kierkegaard
S
"The more faithfully a man considers himself, the greater he becomes."
Søren Kierkegaard
S
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Søren Kierkegaard
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Knowledge without love is like a bell without a clapper."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Wisdom comes from experience and reflection."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
August Strindberg
A
"Keep a watch over yourself; for as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
August Strindberg
A
"Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion."
August Strindberg
A
"The sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
August Strindberg
A
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
August Strindberg