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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"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off."
Meg March
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"Poverty is a hard thing to bear, but I have often felt that it is a good thing to have."
Marmee
M
"I feel that it is not for us to meddle."
Marmee
J
"One can't love and be wise."
Jo March
J
"I'm not romantic, I'm practical."
Jo March
M
"Money can't make you happy."
Marmee
A
"Redemption is not something I could buy"
Amir
A
"I had become a man of compromises"
Amir
R
"Forgiveness is not erasure, but acceptance"
Rahim Khan
B
"Some pigs are better than others."
Boxer
O
"Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
Old Major
M
"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up."
Marmee
M
"Be happy, be virtuous, and be successful."
Marmee
M
"Keep a watch over your tongue as well as your temper."
Marmee
P
"I've been flying above the clouds and I have read the signs in the sky."
Pi Patel
K
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee."
Kurt Vonnegut
O
"Beware of humans bearing gifts."
Old Major
M
"Suffering is a great teacher. It has made you a better woman."
Mariam
H
"I didn't want no trouble with them kind of people"
Huckleberry Finn
H
"There's just too much in this world I don't understand"
Huckleberry Finn
M
"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up."
Marmee
M
"Love is a very happy thing, but there is a time for all things."
Marmee
T
"That is so human, to think you can change things"
Tralfamadorian
J
"Kings is a considerable trouble to a raft"
Jim
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"I am a cheerful person, but with a melancholic bent."
Pi Patel
P
"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go."
Pi Patel
P
"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
Pi Patel
P
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves."
Pi Patel
P
"Choice is the attribute of the conscious."
Pi Patel
P
"Life cannot be understood standing still."
Pi Patel