Wiser Quotes - Page 13

• Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

  Charles Kingsley

  Inspirational Love, Lying, Night

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

  Katie Holmes

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  "Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!". Interview with Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. March 1, 2009.

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Conceited, Thinking, Religion

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.223

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• Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, Eye, Compassion

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• Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job is to run it, create the relationships, and run the business as profitably as I can. Harry acquires, merges, expands he is responsible for Percept's growth.

  Shailender Singh

  Leadership, Running, Brother

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• "I think decriminalization would've been a wiser first step."

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Thinking, Firsts

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  William Henry Chase

  Wise, Wisdom, Sadness

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• I feel like he's taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and I will never know, never be any the wiser. But I do know. I know exactly what he's doing. And so I don’t trust him. In the end he is pushing me away, Dr. Nash. Ruining everything.

  S.J. Watson

  Thinking, Pushing, Drs

  "Before I Go To Sleep".

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• Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

  Philip Pullman

  Humble, Stronger, Want

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.

  Mary Oliver

  Country, Lying, Book

  Mary Oliver (1972). “The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems”

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

  Saadi

  Wise, Ignorance, Order

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.155, Innovations and Information

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• When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'

  Arthur Eddington

  Nature, Science, Giving

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Travel, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.241

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• 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. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Liberty, Together, Civil Rights

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• You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Giving, Want

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Change, Intelligence

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Art, Knowledge

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Conscience is wiser than science.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wisdom, Science, Accounts

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• If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Twenties, Afternoon

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.702, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.

  Mark Haddon

  Prayer, Believe, Fall

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• Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Adults

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• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Mistake, Writing

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin

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• We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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