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 more I wonder, the more I love."Celie
"You got a lot to learn about love."Shug Avery
"I ain't no fool. I know what he want."Celie
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."Judge Holden
"You've got to git man off your eyeball, before you can see anything a'tall."Nettie
"The problem these days is that we're all such experts on the lives of others."Emily Tallis
"Suffering is only suffering if it is wasted."Mariam
"Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be."Huckleberry Finn
"I warn't the boy to meddle."Huckleberry Finn
"I warn't expecting nothing."Huckleberry Finn
"Everything they done was jist right."Huckleberry Finn
"The smaller things in life often carry the greatest weight."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Children perceive truths that adults have learned to ignore."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Revenge is a bitter fruit."Mariam
"She could not undo what had been done."Briony Tallis
"She understood at last what she had taken from them."Briony Tallis
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."Judge Holden
"Never mine what anybody tell you."Shug Avery
"She got more sense than anybody I know."Shug Avery
"I understand now what love really is."Celie
"I ain't a-going to tell all I know"Huckleberry Finn
"Desire is a malevolent thing. It makes diamonds into frogs and Cupidstones into fish."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Terrible things have happened. But you don't have to become terrible."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Sometimes what we want most cannot be obtained."The Narrator (omniscient)
"The body remembers what the mind forgets."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some."Serena Joy
"The longer she waited, the more convinced she became of the rightness of her action."Briony Tallis
"She was learning the cost of her certainty."Briony Tallis
"She had confused pity with morality."Briony Tallis
"She had learned that intention was not the same as outcome."Briony Tallis