quotes about Wise People

last updated: November 28, 2023

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are,
-- Doc Watson

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“The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have.”
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”
“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
“Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.”
“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press
“Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”
“Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.”
“One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.”