Wise Quotes - Page 19

• Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Education, Opportunity, Men

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• A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Coercion, Willpower

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• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Order

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  Arthur Helps

  Winning, Men, Sticks

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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• Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of country, of God, of an idea, love is fundamentally an intense devotion to this notion that something is bigger than us. Love is ultimately larger than friendship, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, or joy. Indeed, as the Four Wise Ones once said, it may be all you need.

  Daniel Levitin

  Country, Love Is, Ideas

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Numbers

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

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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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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• 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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• Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Ideas, Interesting

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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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• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Appreciation, Teaching, Listening To Others

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• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Believe, Power, Men

  "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.

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• Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

  Roger McDonald

  Mind, Comfort, Advancement

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, Play, Watches

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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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• 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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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

  Euripides

  Men, Ideas, Superstitions

  "Sisyphus". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

  Aristotle

  Men, Details, All Things

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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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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Two

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• The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ayurveda, Medicine, Earth

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