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

T
"The best-laid plans often go awry."
The Narrator
C
"Immortality has its burdens."
Crowley
C
"Sometimes doing nothing is doing everything."
Crowley
T
"The answer to the ultimate question remains mysterious."
The Narrator
T
"Everyone enjoys wine, save drunkards."
Tyrion Lannister
D
"Fire consumes, but winter is worse"
Davos Seaworth
D
"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens"
Davos Seaworth
T
"I drink and I know things"
Tyrion Lannister
I
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya
V
"Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"
Vizzini
V
"We'll have a battle of wits."
Vizzini
M
"Mostly dead is slightly alive."
Miracle Max
P
"I was a troubled kid. That's what my teachers called me."
Percy Jackson
G
"The gods don't play by our rules."
Grover Underwood
A
"Sometimes you have to make impossible choices."
Annabeth Chase
P
"I had to trust my instincts to survive."
Percy Jackson
T
"I drink and I know things"
Tyrion Lannister
N
"I need you to be smart"
Ned Stark
M
"Belief is the old magic. There are those who believe and those who do not believe, and their belief shapes the world."
Mr. Wednesday
S
"You're not a god. You're just a man who believes he's a god."
Shadow Moon
S
"You become what you believe you are."
Shadow Moon
M
"The road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
Mr. Wednesday
M
"The world is older and more complicated than you think."
Mr. Wednesday
D
"I drink and I know things"
Davos Seaworth
C
"Vengeance is a poison best left untasted"
Catelyn Stark
T
"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but the fact that they are so hard to tell apart is not really the hemlock's fault."
The Narrator
C
"Everything goes to Hell when you're not looking."
Crowley
T
"A demon and an angel in casual proximity is usually the sign of something about to go seriously wrong."
The Narrator
T
"The most merciful thing in the world is the inability to correlate all its contents."
The Narrator
A
"The problem with saving the world is that afterwards you have to live in it."
Aziraphale