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Wise Quotes

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“It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

Cornel West
“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”
Cornel West, Cornel West Reader

Jodi Picoult
“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

Dean Koontz
“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
Dean Koontz, Midnight

Joel Osteen
“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Steve Maraboli
“A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.”
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Confucius
“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
Confucius

Joseph Stalin
“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”
Joseph Stalin
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Erik Pevernagie
“Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
Erik Pevernagie

Criss Jami
“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

NisiOisiN
“The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear nametags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”
NisiOisiN, Death Note: Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

Meg Shaffer
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.”
Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

Christopher Hitchens
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendentâ€� and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.”
Christopher Hitchens

Baruch Spinoza
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Henry David Thoreau
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
Henry David Thoreau

Michael Bassey Johnson
“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Leigh Bardugo
“A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.”
Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

John Connolly
“When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.”
John Connolly, The Infernals

Israelmore Ayivor
“When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
Israelmore Ayivor

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Divide and rule, the politician cries;
Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gedichte

Toba Beta
“Your desire to advise other people,
grows in line with your perception...
that assumes you're wiser than them.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Jane Austen
“It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.”
Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.”
Anna Gould

Adriana Trigiani
“If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.”
Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife

Maya Angelou
“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”
Maya Angelou

“The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end â€� we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

AVA.
“the woman is rain,
and when she falls,
she is a monsoon.
to love her is to drown.”
AVA., you are safe here.