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