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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"Love should never be a reason for abuse"
Lily Bloom
L
"You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved"
Lily Bloom
D
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
Duchess
P
"It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her house and the one I saw from mine was the same one."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"The rich kids, they weren't really bad."
Ponyboy Curtis
D
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
Duchess
W
"If you have good thoughts, you will have good actions and good habits and good character and a good life."
Willy Wonka
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"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
Willy Wonka
C
"If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take."
Cheshire Cat
C
"You may not have noticed, but I have."
Caterpillar
D
"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Duchess
B
"Success isn't what you think it is"
Billy Dunne
P
"Maybe the socs don't have it so great after all. But they'll never know how bad it is to be a greaser."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"Life's just not fair."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"There's a lot more to life than just greasers and socs."
Ponyboy Curtis
M
"A person's eyes are always in the right place."
Milo
M
"It's not just the answers that matter, it's the questions you ask."
Milo
T
"The very fact that you want to understand shows that you already possess great wisdom."
The Mathemagician
T
"Knowledge is only useful if you know how to use it."
The Mathemagician
W
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open."
Winnie-the-Pooh
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"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem."
Winnie-the-Pooh
W
"Trying to be funny might not be the right thing to do on a Blustery Day."
Winnie-the-Pooh
E
"Tut-tut, looks like rain."
Eeyore
W
"Life is Much Better when Shared with Friends."
Winnie-the-Pooh
T
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
The Red Queen
H
"It's rather hard to understand."
Humpty Dumpty
D
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
Duchess
A
"Perhaps it doesn't even have a moral."
Alice
J
"There's still plenty of good in the world. All you have to do is look for it."
Johnny Cade
T
"You must always pay attention to what you are doing."
Tock