Wiser Quotes

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

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.

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

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

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

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

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.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

We are wiser than we know.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

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

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.