Nelson Mandela on clarity, patience, and the kind of knowing that only comes with time, distilled into a single line: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.". It is one of the more shared lines in our wisdom collection, and for good reason.

Wisdom quotes are usually not loud. They are the lines you come back to quietly, years after first reading them. Keeping one visible on your phone is a way of slowly letting a useful idea become part of how you think.

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