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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"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."Ivan Karamazov
"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom, not its end."Ivan Karamazov
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."Atticus Finch
"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."Miss Maudie Atkinson
"We're making a much bigger thing out of this than we should."Atticus Finch
"Illusions are the only realities."Emma Bovary
"Words are such unsatisfactory things."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"What is passion but a collection of delusions?"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Boredom is the worst of all afflictions."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The heart is a mystery that reason cannot solve."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Duty had never been her strong point."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"What good is virtue when one is suffering?"Emma Bovary
"Her mistakes were the price of her illusions."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The heart desires what the mind cannot understand."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Why do we struggle, why do we suffer?"Pierre Bezukhov
"What will happen when I lose consciousness of myself?"Pierre Bezukhov
"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness"Ivan Karamazov
"I want to understand it all, to forgive everyone for everything"Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."Nick Carraway
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."Nick Carraway
"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me."Nick Carraway
"The barkeeper's instinct must have told him that he was dealing with that sort of confidence man."Nick Carraway
"I knew the world's a hard place."Nick Carraway
"I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."Daisy Buchanan
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."Nick Carraway
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."Jean Valjean
"Every closed eye is not sleeping."Eponine
"One should not touch one's idols; the gilt comes off in your hands."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Life teaches us through suffering."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)