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 invisible man sees more than those who are seen."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"My invisibility is both curse and gift."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I choose to remember the good things. It is the only way forward."Mariam
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some."Serena Joy
"The more I wonder, I wonder more."Celie
"God don't love nobody more than anybody else, I think."Shug Avery
"When you see something beautiful, you ought to know it."Shug Avery
"Things we aren't supposed to know prolong our lives."Janine
"All sickness is not unto death."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Without commitments a man cannot live."Brother Jack
"Responsibility is a burden."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Blindness is total darkness."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The mind betrays the body."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through."Kathy H.
"You have to accept reality the way it is."Miss Emily
"You can't go back and change the past."Tommy
"The Lord don't like ugly and he ain't stuck on pretty."Celie
"The world is everything that is the case."Judge Holden
"Whatever is not eternal is trash."Judge Holden
"We are not the authors of our own stories, but we can choose how we respond to the words written for us."Mariam
"I had been looking for myself all my life."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The reality of experience is important."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I must live with the contradictions."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I could see beneath the surface."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Perhaps the best way is to go underground."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I must understand the nature of my situation."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Suffering is like a cluster of dark clouds."Mariam
"Context is all."Offred
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."Fantine