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 degree of ones emotions varies inversely with ones knowledge of the facts"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Love only the strong"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Reason guides me only to conclusions"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The heart is the master; the mind is the servant"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"If you wish to truly understand something, try to change it."
Maxim Gorky
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"The capacity to feel deeply is what separates humanity from mere existence."
Maxim Gorky
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"Understanding begins when we stop assuming and start truly listening."
Maxim Gorky
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"The greatest wisdom is to know oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The mind that never doubts is the mind that never grows."
Ivan Turgenev
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"One should be wise, but not too wise."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The price of wisdom is often sorrow."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The mind can be both our greatest tool and worst enemy."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Wisdom whispers where folly shouts."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The soul recognizes what the mind denies."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Wisdom is knowing which doors not to open."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The heart's wisdom is older than the mind's knowledge."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Wisdom is knowing what you do not know and embracing that mystery."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Incompetence is when you can't do a thing; but the real problem is not knowing that you can't do a thing."
Anton Chekhov
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"The more I live and the more I think, I realize that I know nothing."
Anton Chekhov
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"You can navigate this world if you keep your eyes open."
Anton Chekhov
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"The stupidest thing one can do is to declare: I am wise."
Anton Chekhov
"We are all born mad; some remain so."
Samuel Beckett
"The heart is a senseless thing."
Samuel Beckett
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
Samuel Beckett
"Forgetting might be a mercy."
Samuel Beckett
"Beauty fades but stupidity is forever."
Samuel Beckett
"Finding meaning is the great struggle."
Samuel Beckett
"To understand is to forgive."
Samuel Beckett
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"The greatest wisdom is to know yourself."
Leo Tolstoy