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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"Pride has always been my enemy."
Mr. Rochester
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"The past cannot be changed, only accepted."
Mr. Rochester
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"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends"
Heathcliff
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"Revenge is not so sweet, that I have much to boast of"
Roger Chillingworth
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"A woman never overcomes these problems by her own strength."
Hester Prynne
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Pip
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Joe Gargery
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"I have learned that wealth cannot buy happiness."
Pip
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"At last I understand what it means to live."
Pip
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"If it be true that defects nourished become talents, this may be the talent of Mr. Stryver."
The Narrator
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"In the depths of despair, we discover our true selves."
Sydney Carton
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"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."
Ishmael
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"Experience is merely the name we give our mistakes."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"I can resist everything except temptation, but then again, so can most people."
The Narrator
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"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Elizabeth Bennet
E
"Vanity and pride are different things."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and I have been taught by it."
Pip
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"I am both the victim and the perpetrator of my own circumstances."
Pip
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"We are shaped by our choices more than by our circumstances."
Pip
J
"The measure of a person is not their fortune, but their character."
Joe Gargery
N
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends."
Nelly Dean
S
"The past, no matter how dark, cannot define our future unless we allow it to"
Sydney Carton
L
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"Conscience is something that causes all kinds of bother."
Lord Henry Wotton
L
"Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"The man who says that he has lost nothing in this world is either a fool or a liar."
Basil Hallward
L
"Moderation is a fatal thing."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Ishmael
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"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."
Ishmael
I
"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern."
Ishmael