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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"What is the use of repeating all that stuff?"Alice
"It's a good thing to accept the mysteries of life"The Alchemist
"The language of the world is the language of the heart"The Alchemist
"The heart of the world feels joy and pain"The Alchemist
"Your eyes show the age of your soul"The Alchemist
"I love those who do not first look behind the stars in order to find reasons for going down and being sacrifices."Zarathustra
"Beware of those for whom the lust for punishment is powerful!"Zarathustra
"Every people speaks of its virtue. But virtue is not the same everywhere."Zarathustra
"The most spiritually inclined are the greatest learners of suffering."Zarathustra
"The body is the greater reason; it does the greater part of becoming conscious."Zarathustra
"Your virtue is not of the kind that makes famous."Zarathustra
"A man's maturity consists in having found the serious answer to his own existence."Zarathustra
"If you have good thoughts, you will have good actions and good habits and good character and success in life"Miss Honey
"Being very small is no different from being very tall"Matilda Wormwood
"You cannot take it with you when you go"Miss Honey
"It is a fair rule that wherever you go you should leave something behind"Miss Honey
"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."Cheshire Cat
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."Duchess
"I can't believe that!"Alice
"How do you know I'm mad?"Cheshire Cat
"The best way to explain it is to do it."Mad Hatter
"You're old Father William."Caterpillar
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."The Red Queen
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."The Cheshire Cat
"If you have good thoughts, you will have good deeds and good deeds will make the world a better place."Willy Wonka
"We must respect the rules we are given."Charlie Bucket
"The heart is wiser than the mind."Willy Wonka
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open."Winnie-the-Pooh
"Tut, tut. It looks like rain, said Eeyore gloomily."Eeyore
"Perhaps if I go to him, and say nothing, he will know what I mean."Winnie-the-Pooh