"It's better to be wise than to be…" — Alan Alda

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

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101 Quotes by Alan Alda

Alan Alda has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with…
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty,…
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover…
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing.…
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better…
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…

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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — Isaac Asimov
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of… — Marcus Aurelius

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