Wise People Quotes - Page 2

• The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wise, Keys, People

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• Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

  Shiv Khera

  Wise, People, Criticism

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 14, 2016

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• I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

  Byron Katie

  Wise, Teacher, People

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• You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

  Peggy Lee

  Stars, People, Looks

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• The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient to us –and take them for granted because their doors are always open, only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of truth.

  Suzy Kassem

  Cheer, Dark, Fighting

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• These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, People, Joy

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• You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

  Doc Watson

  Being Yourself, People, Knows

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• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Wise, Views

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• Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

  Sam Keen

  Wise, Wisdom, Spring

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, you need to have at least one black friend, otherwise people think you're racist

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Black

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• In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

  Charlie Munger

  Motivational, Wise, Zero

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• simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Simple, People

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Caring

  "Villette".

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• Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Opportunity, People

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wise, Wisdom, Fun

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• You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Ideas, People

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• Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Respect, Truth

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

  Chrysippus

  Wise, Hands, People

  "Moral Epistles". Book by Seneca,

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• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.

  Dennis Cooper

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

  George Grosz

  Wise, War, People

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, People, Solitude

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