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

C
"I am not a moron. I am only 16."
Cher Horowitz
C
"Anything you can lose on a bet is not worth having."
Cher Horowitz
C
"I realize that this may be hard to understand."
Cher Horowitz
C
"You need to get your priorities straight."
Cher Horowitz
C
"I know exactly what you need."
Cher Horowitz
C
"Trust me on this one."
Cher Horowitz
C
"Life is too short to waste time on people who don't appreciate you."
Cher Horowitz
F
"Never lose sight of what truly matters."
Fairy Godmother
F
"Live with purpose and intention."
Fairy Godmother
F
"Wisdom grows with age and experience."
Fairy Godmother
T
"Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place."
Tai Frasier
T
"Every problem has a solution if you think hard enough."
Tai Frasier
T
"You don't have to participate in the rat race."
Tai Frasier
H
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends."
Heathcliff
H
"That is a great consolation to the poor."
Heathcliff
D
"I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose."
Don Quixote
D
"Hunger is the best sauce."
Don Quixote
D
"The greatest madness that a man can fall into is to lose his senses."
Don Quixote
D
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Don Quixote
D
"The wise know that wisdom consists not in knowing much but in knowing what matters."
Don Quixote
A
"The highest goodness is not found in avoiding sin, but in the perfection of our virtues."
Anna Karenina
A
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Anna Karenina
A
"The beginning of all wisdom is the recognition of one's ignorance."
Anna Karenina
D
"The wound that is paid for with gold is not so painful."
Don Quixote
D
"All sorrows are bearable if there is bread."
Don Quixote
D
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
Don Quixote
D
"He that is too much in any thing, so as he giveth another occasion of dislike, doth err."
Don Quixote
D
"A man may know that he is a scoundrel, and yet be unable to help it"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The roots of our actions lie deeper than we dare look"
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"The heart knows secrets that reason cannot fathom"
Dmitri Karamazov