Wise Quotes - Page 18

• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Parent, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

  Idries Shah

  Powerful, Names, Ignorant

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• So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

  Plato

  Exercise, Class, Political

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• Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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• 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

  Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

  Art, Men, Helping

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• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Money, Men, Wife

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• A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

  Michael Stipe

  Party, Men, Skills

  "Mike Mills on why R.E.M. are calling it quits" by David Fricke, www.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Oppression makes a wise man mad.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Mad, Oppression

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

  John Legend

  Inspire, Musician, Boundaries

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Different, Way

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• A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

  George Herbert

  Brave, Valor, Complexion

  George Herbert (1842). “The Temple: And the Country Parson”, p.81

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Sick, Dying

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

  James Nesbitt

  Strong, Enough, Journalist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Ambition, Joy

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• If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Emulation, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.532

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• Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

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• A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Home, Fighting

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.231, Penguin

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Emotions Feelings, Understanding

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• At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1196, Macmillan

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• I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's
  a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Responsibility, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Animal, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Brave, Enough, Staying

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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• My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

  Big Boi

  Goal, Records

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

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• You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Years, Law, Tree

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• The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Steps

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.104, Macmillan

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