Wise Quotes - Page 3

• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Stupid, Learning

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

  Phoebe Cary

  Thinking, Shadow, Sometimes

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Everyone honors the wise.

  Aristotle

  Honor

  Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

  Mandy Aftel

  Real

  Mandy Aftel (1997). “The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• To have grown wise and kind is real success.

  Tristan Bernard

  Real, Kind, Real Success

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• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Learning, Men

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• Govern wisely, and as little as possible

  Sam Houston

  Power, Political, Advice

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• The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

  Stephen Hawking

  Logical

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• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

  Sivananda

  Motivational, Uplifting, Faith

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• They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.161, CUP Archive

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• We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

  Scott Adams

  Irrational

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

  Clint Smith

  Writing, Speak

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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

  Respect, Truth, People

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• People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

  Aristotle

  People, Effort, Community

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• When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from May 19, 2010

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• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Experience, Prophecy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

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• I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

  Socrates

  Knows

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• The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

  Epictetus

  Realizing

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• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Italian, Cities, Ideas

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• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Competition, Underestimate, Antagonist

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• The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

  Gregory Bateson

  Law, People, Behaviour

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• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Heart, Men, Foolish Man

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Writings”, Library of America

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• Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

  Tara Brown

  Negative, Watches, Fool

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• We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Yesterday, Choices

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