Wise People Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, People

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.12

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• When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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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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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, People, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

  Chuck D

  Wise, Mother, Father

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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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• The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen.

  Gerhard Richter

  Running, Song, Art

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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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• 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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• Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2909, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

  Janette Oke

  Wise, People, Causes

  Janette Oke (1990). “Father of My Heart”, Bethany House Pub

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• Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Wise, People, Fool

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• I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Smart, School

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Simple, People

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• Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Wise, Teacher

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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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