Wise Quotes - Page 37

• Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

  Nawang Khechog

  Trying, Kind, Humans

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• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nerd, Doe, Fool

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

  Bryan Procter

  Sleep, Simple, Said

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.269

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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Writing, Thinking, Fountainhead

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Important, Statistics

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• During times like these, the wise are influential.

  Joni Mitchell

  Times Like These, Politics, Influential

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.249, Omnibus Press

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Gun, Fire, Judging

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Prayer, Men

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  Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  Stevie Nicks

  Timeless, Adages, Prisoner

  Song: Beauty And The Beast, Album: The Soundstage Sessions

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• Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Love You, Blow, Advice

  Song: As Wise As A Serpent

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• His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. "Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. "Exactly. A wise man never sprints...in a marathon.

  Colleen Houck

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Thinking, Cities, Giving

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• The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Clever

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• It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Decision, Would Be, Logical

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• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Army, Race, Self

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

  Big Pun

  Education, Ghetto, Batteries

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• To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Eye, Mean

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• I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

  Greg Laswell

  Song, Artist, Giving

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• I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

  John Ortberg

  Leaving, Lazy, Lap

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• It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Wisdom, Clever, Trying

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• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  Wayne Rooney

  Football, Stopping, Way

  "Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's wit and wisdom gets found in translation when talking Italian". La Repubblica Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 12, 2012.

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• Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

  John Slattery

  Average, Risk, Faces

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

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• If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Love Life, Buddhism

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• Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Real, Buddhism

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• Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Nature, Crazy

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