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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"The guilty always betray themselves through their actions."Justice Wargrave
"Mercy is a concept unknown to the truly just."Justice Wargrave
"The guilty are not punished; they are revealed."Justice Wargrave
"Chewing gum is really gross and if you chew it you will get very fat."Willy Wonka
"Something's not quite right about that child"Miss Honey
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."Anne Shirley
"I guess that's because some people are born deaf and some become deaf."Anne Shirley
"I wish life was like a book. You could turn back and change things if you did something wrong."Anne Shirley
"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."Cheshire Cat
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."Cheshire Cat
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."Duchess
"But I don't want to go among mad people."Alice
"How do you know I'm mad?"Cheshire Cat
"The wasteland grows: woe to him who harbors wastelands!"Zarathustra
"What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt."Zarathustra
"I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers."Zarathustra
"I teach you the meaning of the earth, and to despise all the world-weary talk."Zarathustra
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."Zarathustra
"All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again."Humpty Dumpty
"Well, in our country you'd generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time."Alice
"A person might have a very wicked heart and still have pretty teeth."Mary Lennox
"One can't believe impossible things."Alice
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."Cheshire Cat
"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."Duchess
"If you live to be one hundred, you should make it."Winnie-the-Pooh
"The more it snows, the more it goes. The more it goes, the more it snows."Winnie-the-Pooh
"I am not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."Winnie-the-Pooh
"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
"If you have good thoughts, you will have good deeds and good deeds will change the world."Willy Wonka
"Good things come to good people."Grandpa Joe