Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Summer

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Experience
  • Think
  • See

• My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Work
  • Country
  • Experience

• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Political

• 'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wise

• what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Hate
  • Spiritual
  • Stupid

• The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

  

  John Thorn
  • Control

• In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • Art
  • Small

• The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Movie

• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Food
  • Popular

• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Experience
  • Wise
  • Stupid