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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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"There should be someone to put your affairs in order."Pilar Ternera
"But grief is a queer thing. It comes and goes."Mariam
"We women are not creatures of this earth."Mariam
"Better never means better for everyone"Offred
"You can't put a quart into a pint pot"Serena Joy
"He understood that some choices unmake a life."The Narrator (omniscient)
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."Fantine
"It don't make no difference what you do, a conscience don't seem to care."Huckleberry Finn
"A person's conscience ain't got no sense."Huckleberry Finn
"The wrong answer is to accept, is to resign yourself to it."Laila
"The only way to live is by forgetting"José Arcadio Buendía
"We are not destined to repeat the mistakes of our past but to understand them"Melquiades
"The real tragedy is not that we make mistakes but that we never learn from them"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Innocence is a luxury that few people can afford in this world"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"We are all architects of our own destruction"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."Judge Holden
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters."Judge Holden
"What does your heart tell you?"Fermina Daza
"I have come to terms with the world."Death
"He was a child who did not understand."Death
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."Pilar Ternera
"The truth is that she was not capable of thinking of a single thing without wishing it were different."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Even miracles could tire after a while."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"She had learned that the heart has its own intelligence."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"What matters in life is not what we accomplish but what we overcome."Úrsula Iguarán
"He understood too late that paradise cannot be constructed, only remembered."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"She understood now the paradox: that forgiveness too could be a selfish act."Briony Tallis
"Atonement only truly begins with the acknowledgment of wrongdoing."Briony Tallis
"She understood that innocence, once lost, could never truly be restored."Briony Tallis