Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

64329 quotes

A
"We become lost only when we stop asking where we are."
Ahmed, Sara
H
"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with."
Haraway, Donna
H
"Survival is an inadequate response to the world's troubles."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We must develop response-ability, not just responsibility."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We must learn to live in the ruins of progress."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We must think-with rather than think-about."
Haraway, Donna
H
"The question is not what we know, but what we can do together."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We must learn to work across our differences and discomforts."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We must think of ourselves as response-able beings."
Haraway, Donna
H
"The world is not to be mastered but lived in relationship with."
Haraway, Donna
G
"We must think beyond the binaries that constrain our understanding of identity."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"Difference is not deficiency; it is the condition of existence."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We are always already implicated in the systems we seek to critique."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We must think about what we do before we think about what we are."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We are what we do, not what we say we are."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We must learn to inhabit paradox."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"Difference cannot be erased; it can only be negotiated."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We are always already implicated in the systems we inhabit."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"We must embrace the uncertainty of becoming."
Grosz, Elizabeth
M
"Desire is not something to be ashamed of; it is something to be studied."
Muñoz, José Esteban
M
"Disidentification teaches us how to live within, against, and beyond ideology."
Muñoz, José Esteban
M
"To feel is to know; to know is to feel."
Muñoz, José Esteban
M
"Sadness is a gift because it makes us attentive."
Muñoz, José Esteban
M
"The margins have their own wisdom."
Muñoz, José Esteban
B
"Affirmative ethics says yes to life in all its complexity."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"Difference is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be embraced."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"The body is not separate from thought but intrinsic to it."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"Living well means embracing our interdependence with others."
Braidotti, Rosi
L
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought"
Law, John
L
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"
Law, John