Wisdom Quotes

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Wisdom Quotes

A carefully curated collection of wisdom quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

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"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind."

-- Virginia Woolf

"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters."

-- Virginia Woolf

"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness."

-- Virginia Woolf

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men."

-- Virginia Woolf

"It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Literature is open to everybody."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Literature is open to everybody."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Thinking is my fighting."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Thinking is my fighting."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Language is wine upon the lips."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Language is wine upon the lips."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The moment was all; the moment was enough."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The moment was all; the moment was enough."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Everything is relevant; everything is related."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Everything is relevant; everything is related."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Rigidity is death; conformity is death."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Rigidity is death; conformity is death."

-- Virginia Woolf

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."

-- Virginia Woolf

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A carefully curated collection of wisdom quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

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Some of the most celebrated wisdom quotes come from Krishna, among many others featured on this page.

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Popular wisdom quotes include: "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion." -- Krishna Also: "You came empty handed, and you will leave empty handed." -- Krishna.

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