Wiser Quotes

• Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

  Drake

  Pain, Stronger, Make Me Strong

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• I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mistake, Growing, Enjoy

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  Seneca the Younger

  Appreciation, Inspirational Life, Adversity

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• If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Getting Older, Ifs

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• Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, The End Of The Day

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• Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

  Leon Brown

  Negative Experiences, Joy, Bitter

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• I live in the realm
  of romantic possibility.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dating, Man Of My Dreams, Possibility

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

  Philippe Quinault

  Wise, Wisdom, Being Wise

  "Armide". 1686.

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• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Wise, Thinking, Planning Ahead

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• If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, People, Inspire

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• Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

  Black Elk

  Dream, Wake Up, Waking

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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

  Ludwig Borne

  Delusion

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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

  Jimmy Buffett

  Voice, Path, Helping

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  George Orwell

  Badass, Intelligent, Imagination

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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