Wiser Quotes - Page 25

• We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Judgment, Awake

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything...'

  Noemie Lenoir

  Letting Go, Forever, Doe

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• One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Independent, Math, Feelings

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

  Wendy Carlos

  Grows, Humans, Human Beings

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• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Leadership, Book

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• My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Niece, Believe, Granddaughter

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• My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

  Marian Keyes

  Stronger, Truth Is, My Truth

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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, People

  "Oprah Kardashian Interview: Kim Kardashian Says Was Depressed After Divorce". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Stupid, Done, Foolish

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Front Cover Friedrich August Hayek, 1944.

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Lying, Son

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.383

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• When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

  William Faulkner

  Martini, Bigger, Feels

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• My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

  Hillary Clinton

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Learning, People, Pockets

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Real, Men

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

  William Cowper

  Yoga, Book, Heart

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author”, p.234

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• She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

  Willa Cather

  Ideas, Certain, Companion

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

  Cornel West

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sight, Stronger

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