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