Wiser Quotes - Page 17

• To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

  M. C. Escher

  Waiting, Peculiar, Accepting

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• Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Bitter, Prison

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• Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Remember You, Remembers You

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• It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Blessed, Heart, Greatness

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• 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.

  Thandie Newton

  Baby, Skins, Drawbacks

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Baseball

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• O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Desire, Might

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• Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

  Vernon Howard

  Talking, People, Challenges

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Wisest Man, People

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• Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Doubt, Belief

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• All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Doe, Welcome

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson".

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Laughter, Eye

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Life, Running, Mean

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• I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Ocean, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.79, Penguin

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• Love is wiser than wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Love Is

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• ...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Half, Weak, Aids

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Rights, Giving

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• As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

  Jenna Morasca

  Age, Humans, Human Beings

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• The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Brain, Soup, Motion Pictures

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

  Juliet Marillier

  Girl, Tree, Like You

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Arguing, God Love

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

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• It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Pride, People, Advice

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, World, Information

  "How to Read a Book".

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