Wiser Quotes - Page 8

• Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

  Robert Lowth

  Men, Swearing, Profane

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• The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.

  Campbell McGrath

  Powerful, Believe, Mind

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• In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.

  Merlin Stone

  Unique, Egypt, Isis

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.12, Doubleday

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• Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.

  John Farrar

  Boys, Intellectual, Mind

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• Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.

  Criss Angel

  Children, Cancer, Father

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• I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

  Abby Sunderland

  Twelve, Faith In God, Resilient

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

  Anna Kournikova

  People, Getting Older, Skins

  "Anna Kournikova 'Not Married, Not Pregnant, No Boob Job'", www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

  Roger Federer

  Tolls, Body, Stuff

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• Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  Walter Kirn

  Thinking, Use, Someday

  Walter Kirn (2014). “Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

  Wilma Mankiller

  People, Ordinary, Responsible

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• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Powerful, Omnipotence

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• Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

  Elizabeth I

  Loyalty, Peace, Kings

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• Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, What Matters, People

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• I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't
  get in (anybody's) way.

  Jorge Posada

  Way, Hopefully, Knows

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• The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Hopeless, Without God

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Swimming, Boys

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• I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Horse, Love You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Might, Trouble

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.220, Psychology Press

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Love Is, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Persons

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• Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Ideas, Track

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• Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

  Neil Gaiman

  Classic, Should, Deadline

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• All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

  George Clooney

  Joy, Life Is, Trouble

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• I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically; certainly, not in terms of relationships. The people I'm close to, and there aren't many of them, have been close for a long time. And we know each other well enough to know it isn't the quantity of time you spend together, it's the quality.

  Billy Squier

  Long, People, Quality

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