It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDAWe’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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