"It's better to be wise than to be smart."

-- Alan Alda

#Wise Quotes #Smart Quotes #Being Wise Quotes

“I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.”

Source : Sport Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. November 29, 2004.
“The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.”
“We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant â€˜He who spoke truth like an oracleâ€™. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The worldâ€™s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.”
“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”
“I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.”

Source : The Artist Shop IRC Chat, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.
“Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”
“Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.”

Source : Dennis Wholey (1992). “When the worst that can happen already has: conquering life's most difficult times”, Hyperion Books
“You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.”

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