Wiser You Quotes:

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Inspirational, Buddhism, Wiser You

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

- Lafcadio Hearn

source: Lafcadio Hearn (2014). “Exotics and Retrospectives”, p.147, LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

topic: Wish, Wiser You, Foolish

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Ludwig Borne

topic: Life, Truth, Sunset, Wiser You, Truth Hurts

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Future, Our Past, Wisdom And Experience

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

- Woody Allen

source: "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

topic: Hurt, Getting Older, Quality, Wiser You, Indigestion

With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

- Adrian Peterson

source: "Adrian Peterson opens up on new-look Vikings, his future and finding peace". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. June 18, 2014.

topic: People, Judging, Trials, Judgmental Person, Wiser You

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

- Vanessa L. Williams

source: "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

topic: Fighting, People, Figures, Wiser You

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

- David Levithan

topic: Use, Wiser, Wiser You

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

- Bob Marley

topic: Greener, Wiser You

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

- Anna Kournikova

source: "Anna Kournikova 'Not Married, Not Pregnant, No Boob Job'", www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2008.

topic: People, Getting Older, Skins, Wiser You

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

- Doris Lessing

source: "Doris Lessing: key quotes". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2013.

topic: Wiser, Wiser You

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

- Bill Bonner

topic: Wisdom, Learning, Forever, Wiser You, Age And Wisdom

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Earning It, People, Ungrateful, Wiser You