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 best things in life are worth waiting for."Doc Daneeka
"The heart knows truths the mind cannot articulate."Natasha Rostova
"Happiness is a hard master."Mustapha Mond
"Silence is golden when you cannot speak sense."Bernard Marx
"You're not gonna go for that, Cheswick. That's not the way to handle it. You just stay cool."Randle McMurphy
"The way I see it, the guy is not a fool. He's just trying to get by."Cheswick
"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness"Ivan Karamazov
"Man cannot alter the past, but he can ruin the present by worrying over the future."Pierre Bezukhov
"You can't live in the past, but you sure can learn from it."Nurse Ratched
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."Atticus Finch
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."Atticus Finch
"Common sense is something this fellow didn't have, not even one iota."Atticus Finch
"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is."Atticus Finch
"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to walk around on this one."Miss Maudie Atkinson
"Insanity is contagious."Yossarian
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."Chaplain Tappman
"Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness."Mustapha Mond
"One is not wretched because one has been burnt, but because one has been burnt for nothing."Jean Valjean
"A man who agrees to everything is useful to no one."Chief Bromden
"We're all crazy here."Cheswick
"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
"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is."Atticus Finch
"We do the best we can with the light we have."Atticus Finch
"Remember that, Chris, remember that!"John the Savage
"I was trying to make him feel bad."John the Savage
"Insanity is contagious."Doc Daneeka
"The world is crazy and we're the only sane people in it."Chaplain Tappman
"The heart has its own logic that reason cannot comprehend."Dmitri Karamazov
"We cannot escape from ourselves."Pierre Bezukhov