Wise Quotes - Page 10

• We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

  Frederick William Faber

  Men, Thinking, Ifs

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.28

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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• The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Yoga, People

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.572, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.

  Gabriel Mann

  Morning, Acting, Together

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• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Suicide

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

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• There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Growing Up, Heart, Character

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• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Courage, Blessing, Heaven

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• A word to the wise is infuriating.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Communication, Epic, Infuriating

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• A word to the wise is sufficient

  Plautus

  Wise Words, Sufficient

  Titus Maccius Plautus, James Tatum (1983). “Plautus, the darker comedies”

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• It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

  Alan Alda

  Smart, Being Wise, Being Smart

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, 1980.

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• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

  Evan Esar

  Wisdom, Unnecessary, Wise Words

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• Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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  Ram Dass

  World Suffering, Training, Becoming

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Harmony

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• Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Understanding, Sometimes, Judgment

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• Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Men, Rose

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Philosophical, New Beginnings

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken Heart, Lost Love, Cry

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

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• Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

  Robert Breault

  Soulmate, One Day, Imperfect

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• Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

  Robert Breault

  Self Esteem, Imperfection, Invited

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• Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained.

  Michael Dolan

  Energy, Use, Drained

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• Walk lightly through life.

  Guy Finley

  Wise Words, Walks

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Secret of Letting Go”, p.259, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

  Bill Cosby

  Art, Easy, Difficult

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