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