Wiser Quotes - Page 26

• We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 20, 2011

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• If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

  Christina Romer

  Educational, America, Goal

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wise, Mistake, Said

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• A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Enemy, Knows

  "Go Set A Watchman, Atticus Finch & Killing Your Idols" by Genna Rivieccio, theopiatemagazine.com. August 10, 2015.

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• Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Justice, Action

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• I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

  Jon Spaihts

  Stars, Mean, Enlightenment

  Source: www.mtv.com

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