Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

64329 quotes

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