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

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