Wiser Quotes - Page 5

• No man is the wiser for his learning

  John Selden

  Learning, Men

  John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77

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• I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sky, Needs, Orion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.199, Anchor

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• To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Yesterday, Today, Realizing

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• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Richard Shelby

  Country, Believe, Order

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• I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering, 'Why are we here?' The only time I ever asked myself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.

  Karl Pilkington

  Holiday, Years, People

  "Karl Pilkington gets attacked by a crab and swims through poo in The Moaning of Life series 2 trailer" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. August 3, 2015.

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• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  Seth Godin

  What If, Stronger, Trying

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• Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

  C.E. Murphy

  New Experiences

  C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.32, Harlequin

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• Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

  George S. Clason

  Thinking, Keys, Understanding

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?

  Harold Klemp

  Would Be, Hardship, Remember

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• There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

  Kin Hubbard

  Mistake, Men, Entrepreneur

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• It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Profit

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• Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

  Rick Warren

  People, Perspective, Creative

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• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Getting Older, Looks, Getting Old

  "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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• Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

  Bill Maher

  Mistake, Past, Order

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• Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Bird, Robins

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• Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.

  John Aylmer

  Nice, Women, Two

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• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Generations, Aging, Nonsense

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• The loser, when a game of dice is done,
  remains behind reviewing every roll
  sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wisdom, Games, Done

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.83, Penguin

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• The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

  Horace Greeley

  Important, Use, Mankind

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• A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Wise, Men, Neighbor

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Failure, Learning, Errors

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

  Mooji

  Mind, Life Is, Imagine

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