Wiser Quotes

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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.

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.