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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"Memory can be a malady as well as a gift."Vladimir Nabokov
"The supreme good is achieved through the subordination of the individual to the collective will."Vladimir Nabokov
"Believe nothing you hear and half what you see."Vladimir Nabokov
"The mind works like a river, flowing around obstacles."Vladimir Nabokov
"A man may be a fool if he agrees with his times."Vladimir Nabokov
"The mind is the only infinite thing we possess."Vladimir Nabokov
"The more I live, the more I realize that I know nothing."Aleksandr Pushkin
"There is a superstition in avoiding superstition."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The eyes are the windows to the soul."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The soul yearns for beauty and truth."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The more I live, the more I realize that I understand nothing at all."Nikolai Gogol
"Remember always that the crowd is the worst possible judge of truth."Nikolai Gogol
"The heart knows truths that reason cannot grasp."Nikolai Gogol
"What we resist most persistently becomes our teacher."Nikolai Gogol
"Wisdom whispers while folly shouts."Nikolai Gogol
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth."Boris Pasternak
"To understand another person is the beginning of wisdom."Boris Pasternak
"Knowledge without wisdom is like having eyes but no sight."Boris Pasternak
"When a man does not know what the harbor is, any wind is the right wind."Maxim Gorky
"There is nothing more terrible than activity without insight."Maxim Gorky
"The greatest wisdom is in knowing how little we know."Maxim Gorky
"The most important discovery is always the discovery of oneself."Maxim Gorky
"I agree with no one on everything, and with everyone on something."Ivan Turgenev
"Talent is more common than honesty."Ivan Turgenev
"A man cannot serve two masters."Ivan Turgenev
"The more you know, the less you are certain of."Ivan Turgenev
"A man's worth is measured by the depth of his character."Ivan Turgenev
"The mind is more powerful than circumstances."Ivan Turgenev
"Youth is wasted on the young, but wisdom is earned through living."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The measure of a man is not in his words, but in his silence."Aleksandr Pushkin