Wiser Quotes - Page 19

• Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Fool, Dangerous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1705, Random House

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• With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

  Adrian Peterson

  Judging, People, Wiser You

  "Adrian Peterson opens up on new-look Vikings, his future and finding peace". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Ideas, Two

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• Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

  Ursula Hegi

  Believe, Imagine, Grants

  Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.

  Avicii

  Love Is, Games, And Love

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• If a king's adviser is wiser than him, let him be the king!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Adviser, Ifs

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• Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

  Lynsay Sands

  Teacher, Time, Children

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• Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

  Shannon Hale

  Hurt, Home, Lucky

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• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  Randy Moss

  Heart, Thinking, Skills

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• 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.

  Debra Messing

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Knowing, Understanding, Passionate

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• (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

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• It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

  Rex Stout

  Choices, World, Force

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.174, Bantam

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• To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

  Ludwig Borne

  Heart, Men, Voice

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• As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

  Doris Lessing

  Wiser You

  "Doris Lessing: key quotes". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2013.

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• It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• 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.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fall, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mean Girls, Wisdom, Voice

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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• The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

  William Blake

  Simple, Men, Age

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.542, Univ of California Press

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• Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Mouths, May

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• Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  "Pierce Brosnan Talks His Love For Painting, Paddleboarding And Peace In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2013.

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• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Night

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

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• Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

  Gary Allan

  Life, Beautiful, Sweet

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• As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dog, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.93

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• The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

  Frank Abagnale

  People, Police, Identity

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