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 beast is part of us."Simon
"We must make a fire."Piggy
"The voice of the plumb ignorance"Marlow
"There are men who struggle against one thing their whole lives and never win, but occasionally, you find someone who understands you."Jean Valjean
"Conscience is the compass of the soul."Jean Valjean
"Poo-tee-weet."Billy Pilgrim
"The most important rule of all is that you are never given a test you cannot pass."Tralfamadorian
"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition"Walton
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."Yossarian
"But not this. Never this."Yossarian
"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."Benjamin
"We learn from failure, not from success!"Van Helsing
"We cannot change what has been, only what is to come."Jonathan Harker
"Insanity is contagious."Doc Daneeka
"Lot's wife. She was told not to look back"Billy Pilgrim
"We are civilized and we are hunters."Jack Merridew
"We need a signal fire."Ralph
"I hear voices in my head sometimes."Simon
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"Old Major
"I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I went on to finish."Marlow
"One can't drive the creatures like cattle."Marlow
"The greatest of all my mistakes was to underestimate the power of restraint."Marlow
"We learn from failure, not from success!"Van Helsing
"Sleep is good, but there is something better than sleep."Van Helsing
"You can't build a house if you don't have any bricks."Milo Minderbinder
"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent that sting you, as mine have been."Victor Frankenstein
"Revenge only deepens the wounds of both the pursuer and the pursued."Victor Frankenstein
"The beast that I'm speaking of is part of all of us."Simon
"Beware of the dog that does not bark."Eliot Rosewater
"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."Billy Pilgrim