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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"To oppose something is to maintain it"Estraven
"To be whole a man must know darkness and cold"Estraven
"The key to staying alive is staying calm and thinking logically."Mark Watney
"I need to calculate my remaining food supplies carefully."Mark Watney
"The most important thing is not to panic."Mark Watney
"Every problem so far has been solvable with the right approach."Mark Watney
"There's always a way if you're smart enough to find it."Mark Watney
"Know nothing."Jon Snow
"The true enemy of the realm."Jon Snow
"The mission is important, but so is understanding our place in the universe"Dr. Frank Poole
"To know oneself requires confronting the unbearable truth of one's own existence."Kris Kelvin
"To be human is to be incomplete, reaching always toward what we cannot grasp."Kris Kelvin
"The most profound discoveries teach us only what we have lost."Kris Kelvin
"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is ultimately a search for ourselves."Kris Kelvin
"Consciousness is both our greatest achievement and our deepest wound."Kris Kelvin
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"Ford Prefect
"Tea is the best drink in the universe"Arthur Dent
"The most important thing to know about flying is don't think about it too much"Ford Prefect
"Knocking people down, even when you have good intentions, is still knocking people down."Ender Wiggin
"You could see the intelligence in his eyes, something sharp and clever."Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
"A man who knows he is a fool is wise, but a fool who thinks himself wise is mad"Estraven
"To understand another, you must walk in their shadow"Genly Ai
"Prejudice blinds us to common humanity"Genly Ai
"Assumptions cloud the path to truth"Estraven
"The best and most reliable source of information about the world is not your eyes, but your ears."Thufir Hawat
"A person is smart. People are dumb."Thufir Hawat
"A man who sees what is ahead, beyond the present moment, is a man on whom the gods smile."Paul Atreides
"Consciousness is both our greatest gift and our deepest curse."Kris Kelvin
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."Ender Wiggin
"Compassion can be excellent strategy."Mazer Rackham