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

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