quotes about Wiser
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The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
-- Aloe BlaccSource : Song: Wake Me Up, Album: Lift Your Spirit, 2013
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Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
-- Ann Landers -
There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.
-- Betty White -
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
-- Bill Ayers -
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
-- Byron Katie -
Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.
-- C.E. MurphySource : C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.32, Harlequin
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Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
-- Christopher Paolini -
It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.
-- Cindy Crawford -
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y
-- David Levithan -
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As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
-- Doris LessingSource : "Doris Lessing: key quotes". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2013.
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Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
-- Edward Abbey -
If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
-- George S. Clason -
Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?
-- Hugh Prather -
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
-- Jenna Morasca -
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
-- Ludwig Borne -
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My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
-- Marian Keyes -
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
-- Marie de FranceSource : Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead
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We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
-- Melissa EtheridgeSource : "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
-- P. ChidambaramSource : "Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.
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Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
-- Robert Lowth -
But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
-- Rupert BrookeSource : 1913 'There's Wisdom in Women'.
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We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
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But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.
-- Tyson GaySource : "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
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Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.
-- W. H. Auden -
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
-- Wendy Carlos -
When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
-- Al B. Sure! -
When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
-- Charles Finch -
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
-- George BancroftSource : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417
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