Wiser Quotes

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.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

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.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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.

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.

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.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

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.

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.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

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 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.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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