T Quotes
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“The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .”
“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other person out when need be, if they are hiding from some hard reality. “Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
“The wise person realizes that times change. The fool believes that human behavior does the same.”
“The wise person takes advantage of his mistakes and other people's mistakes.”
“The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.”
“The wise quickly dispense gossip, and truth leads it to perish.”
“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.”
“The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.”
“The wise rest at least as hard as they work.”
“The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.”
“The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.”
“The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.”
“The wise shall departs from wrong doing.”
“The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.”
“The wise speak only of what they know”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.”
“The wise study the numbers and their ways. The wise count their movements and their stays.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.”
“The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.”
“The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”
“The wise treat horniness like a hiccup; the foolish, like an asthma attack.”
“The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.”
Source: The second sin
“The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.”
“The wise use AI to design prosthetics, savages for transhumanism.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness
“The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.”
“The wise value education.”
“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
Source: The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War
“The wise warrior avoids the battle.”
Source: The Art of War
“The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.”
“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”
“The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.”
“The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”
“The wise with hope support the pains of life.”
“The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.”
“The wiseman evaluates your essence, ignorance evaluates appearance.”
“The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.”
“The wiser a king is,
the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is.”
“The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.”
Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”
“The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
“THE WISER I GET....
THE LESS I SPEAK,
THE MORE I THINK
AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"
~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER”
Source: Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
“The wiser you get, the less you care to look like a fool.”
“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”