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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"We must live with the choices we make."Vianne Mauriac
"He had the look of someone who knows where he is and why."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"He spent the rest of his life trying to decipher the cryptic passages."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"She had lived through so much that she had forgotten how to be surprised."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Age is the price we pay for maturity."Florentino Ariza
"In the nature of things there is no blemish but the world."Judge Holden
"A man can do a lot of things if he doesn't believe in himself."Ove
"What does the world look like to you, standing there with your insomnia and your herbal remedies?"Remedios the Beauty
"The only way to live in this world is to accept its strangeness."Melquiades
"A lifetime of wars teaches nothing if we do not understand peace."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The heart's reasons are mysteries that logic can never solve."Pilar Ternera
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."Judge Holden
"The old man was a crazy soul."Liesel Meminger
"You think that you are not witnessing a revelation"Judge Holden
"What is the most important thing you can do? The next thing"Werner
"Darkness teaches what light never could"Marie-Laure
"The greatest gift is to be forgotten kindly"Madame Manec
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"Circe
"The gift of prophecy is mostly knowing what no one wants to hear"Circe
"You cannot fix the world. You can only fix yourself."Ove
"You cannot judge a person until you have walked in their shoes."Parvaneh
"The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name."Pilar Ternera
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"To live is to accumulate more regrets than memories."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The key to understanding is right there in front of you."Hans Hubermann
"The only thing that ages is the heart."Florentino Ariza
"I was not born cruel; I was made so by necessity."Circe
"A man can do a lot of things if he doesn't care who gets the credit."Ove
"Rules exist for a reason, but so do exceptions."Ove
"The things that matter most cost nothing."Ove