Wiser Quotes

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

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.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

We are wiser than we know.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

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.