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