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 thief believes everybody steals."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"One can know a man from his laughter."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The doubtful mind is the mind truly seeking truth."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A colossal thought always looks simple in the end."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The degree of one's intelligence can always be measured by the degree of one's uncertainty."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Intelligence without heart makes one clever but not wise."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The heart has its own wisdom that the mind cannot fathom."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To understand is to forgive."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."Leo Tolstoy
"Mankind's main task is to become aware of the light that is within it."Leo Tolstoy
"To find yourself, you must first lose your ego."Leo Tolstoy
"Self-improvement begins with honest self-examination."Leo Tolstoy
"He who makes no mistakes knows nothing. I have nothing to declare except my genius."James Joyce
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce
"Silence is the eloquence of the wise."James Joyce
"Children understand truths that adults have forgotten."James Joyce
"The heart knows what the mind cannot articulate."James Joyce
"Wisdom is knowing what cannot be known."James Joyce
"How did that happen? I don't know."Samuel Beckett
"In this world there are no solutions."Samuel Beckett
"Silence has always been the only way forward."Samuel Beckett
"To say nothing is to say something."Samuel Beckett
"To avoid being cheated, don't make assumptions about human nature."Anton Chekhov
"A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient."Anton Chekhov
"When a man is in the company of a fool, even his words become foolish."Anton Chekhov
"When one is young, one venerates and despises without that mixture of love and understanding that comes with age."Anton Chekhov
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas and still function."Anton Chekhov
"The saddest things are truths that come too late."Anton Chekhov
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."George Bernard Shaw
"The only way to get a man to agree with you is to say something in a certain way that appeals to him."George Bernard Shaw