Wiser Quotes - Page 20

• In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

  Richard Laymon

  Thinking, Advice, Female

  "The Stake".

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• I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. . . seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.

  Duane Allman

  Love, Inspirational, Learning

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• But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wisdom, Known

  1913 'There's Wisdom in Women'.

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• Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

  Bernard Lietaer

  Creating, World, Wealth

  Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Bernard Lietaer (2011). “Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies”, p.243, New Society Publishers

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• Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Morning, Appreciate

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• Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

  Tom Robbins

  Purpose, States, Evolve

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

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• How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

  Benjamin Zander

  Children, Memories, Block

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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• It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

  Adam Braun

  People, Different, Surround Yourself

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

  John Hall Gladstone (1872). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, London : Macmillan & Company

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• Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

  Charlie Munger

  Reading, Self, Curiosity

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• I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Adventure, Science, Men

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more”, p.3790, e-artnow

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• No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

  Theobald Smith

  Hard Work, Science, Accomplishment

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.

  Ron Atchison

  Motivational, Thinking, Differences

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• He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

  Tryon Edwards

  Change, Truth, Mistake

  Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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• When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

  Darren Shan

  Choices, Assistants, Sides

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Should Have, Yesterday, Died

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

  Bob Marley

  Wiser You, Greener

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

  Will Self

  Vision, Harder

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Appreciation, Adversity

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Humility

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, History, Perfection

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.66, 谷月社

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