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
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Alice
T
"The most important thing I learned wasn't in any textbook."
Tara Westover
P
"Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different."
Ponyboy Curtis
D
"The world isn't fair, and it's never going to be."
Darry Curtis
P
"I finally understood what he meant."
Ponyboy Curtis
P
"I realized what really mattered."
Ponyboy Curtis
T
"Knowledge is power, but only if you're willing to leave everything behind to obtain it."
Tara Westover
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
W
"Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something."
Winnie-the-Pooh
O
"I used to believe many things."
Owl
K
"It is bad manners to leave so soon, but worse manners to stay."
King Azaz
K
"Words can build up or tear down depending on how they're used."
King Azaz
M
"Every kingdom has its own logic and beauty."
Milo
T
"The simplest solutions are often the best ones."
Tock
A
"Perhaps looking-glass milk isn't good to drink"
Alice
T
"It doesn't matter which way the wind blows"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
D
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
Duchess
D
"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."
Duchess
C
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
Cheshire Cat
D
"Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral."
Duchess
D
"Stuff and nonsense!"
Duchess
T
"To become someone new, I had to first understand who I had been."
Tara Westover
T
"To become myself, I had to first become a stranger to myself."
Tara Westover
T
"I learned that the person you become is not predetermined. It's a choice you make, over and over again."
Tara Westover
K
"You must never lose faith in the usefulness of words."
King Azaz
T
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
The Humbug
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"Words are very important."
Milo
T
"Sometimes the most obvious things are the hardest to see."
The Humbug
T
"Being thoughtful is far better than being mindless."
The Humbug
T
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
The Humbug