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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"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery and healing."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The best of us sometimes eat rats."
Sirius Black
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"You need to be careful, very careful what you wish for."
Albus Dumbledore
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"We must not dwell on what might have been."
Albus Dumbledore
T
"A man must know what he is."
Theon Greyjoy
T
"A man is defined by his choices."
Theon Greyjoy
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
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"I drink and I know things"
Tyrion Lannister
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"A man who passes no judgment on others is a fool"
Davos Seaworth
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
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"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices."
Albus Dumbledore
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"I should have realized there would be a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets."
Harry Potter
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"Memory charm gone wrong."
Gilderoy Lockhart
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"The monster can live out its days here in the Chamber."
Albus Dumbledore
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."
Albus Dumbledore
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"I will help you, but be careful."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
Albus Dumbledore
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"We are all broken in some way."
Sirius Black
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"A man grows fond of his chains."
Jaime Lannister
T
"Some old wounds never truly heal."
Tyrion Lannister
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"A man can own his castle but not his fate"
Catelyn Stark
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"Nothing opens the heart like true sorrow."
Marius Pontmercy
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"Extreme justice is extreme cruelty."
Thénardier
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
Hermione Granger
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"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders hate, hate engenders conflict."
Albus Dumbledore
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"It is a curious thing, is it not, how much more we trust the senses of a dog than we do a human mind."
Albus Dumbledore