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

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"The most important step a person can take is always the next one."
Wit (Hoid)
J
"I have tasted all the bitterness of life, and I find a savor in it."
Jean Valjean
A
"Age is foolish and forgetfulness when it strives to tell the young how they should live their lives."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"You cannot put an old head on young shoulders."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Your failures, though, have been more valuable."
Albus Dumbledore
J
"I would find it all somehow, the good and the bad, the darkness and the light."
Jon Snow
T
"I drink and I know things"
Tyrion Lannister
J
"A sword is not a toy"
Jaime Lannister
D
"A man chooses what matters to him."
Dalinar Kholin
K
"I have learned that honor means little if you are dead."
Kaladin Stormblessed
A
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The past cannot be changed. But the future is not yet set."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The world is not divided into the living and the dead. I mean, there is Gray, you see."
Albus Dumbledore
D
"A man must know how to die"
Davos Seaworth
D
"A man without honor is not a man at all."
Davos Seaworth
J
"Conscience is God."
Jean Valjean
W
"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?"
Wit (Hoid)
A
"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth."
Aslan
A
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy"
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse"
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Harry, I cannot stress too highly the importance of caution"
Albus Dumbledore
A
"We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy, but that choice may come too late"
Albus Dumbledore
T
"I drink and I know things."
Tyrion Lannister
A
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
S
"We all have both light and dark inside us."
Sirius Black
R
"To understand another, one must walk in their footsteps."
Remus Lupin
A
"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth."
Aslan
A
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."
Albus Dumbledore