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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"I maintained a rigid position on that subject until the facts showed I was wrong."Atticus Finch
"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one."Miss Maudie Atkinson
"Atticus said that Jem was having a difficult time these days, and that it was all right to be depressed and blue sometimes—you were supposed to have an adjusting period."Scout Finch
"Insanity is contagious."Yossarian
"The heart has its own logic which reason knows nothing of"Dmitri Karamazov
"To understand a man, one must understand his greatest fear"Dmitri Karamazov
"No problem can be solved by the same level of thinking that created it"Ivan Karamazov
"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend"Dmitri Karamazov
"Acceptance of reality is the first step to survival."O'Brien
"To get rid of an enemy one must first understand him."General Kutuzov
"I learned you can't fight the system with anger alone."Billy Bibbit
"The real sickness is believing you deserve to be here."Cheswick
"Every man here believes his own story."Cheswick
"You're insane."Doc Daneeka
"The heart has its own wisdom"Dmitri Karamazov
"The greatest wisdom is knowing oneself"Ivan Karamazov
"You know what I wish?"Eliot Rosewater
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do"Tralfamadorian
"Suffering is the only way to wisdom and truth."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"That's the funny thing, a good man stops trying."Randle McMurphy
"I'm the only one in here who ain't crazy, and that's the problem."Randle McMurphy
"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness"Ivan Karamazov
"The heart has its own logic that reason cannot comprehend"Dmitri Karamazov
"The heart knows truths that the mind will never grasp"Dmitri Karamazov
"The only way to survive is to think like a madman."Yossarian
"Being crazy isn't about how you act. It's about what you do."Chief Bromden
"Virtue has a face and a voice; it is called mercy."Jean Valjean
"The soul yearns for redemption long after the world has condemned it."Jean Valjean
"Force is the rule of beasts; reason should govern men."Pierre Bezukhov
"No one is as wise as we would like to be."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky