Wise People Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Wise, Appreciation, Teaching

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• They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wise, Pain, Mistake

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Wisdom, Passion

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• To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

  Mason Cooley

  Wise, Wisdom, Two

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• I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

  Sophia Loren

  Wise, Self, People

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Wise, Fun, Lying

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.

  John Adams

  Wise, People, Republic

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

  Mimi Pond

  People, Important, Might

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• There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Country, Party

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• By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

  Menander

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Wise, New York, Men

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• I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

  Michelle Ryan

  School, People, Accents

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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