Wiser Quotes - Page 9

• The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

  Peter Tork

  Tv Shows, Significant Things, Adults

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• I'm older and wiser. So and now having segued into filmmaking I'm looking at [Ridley Scott ] and what he does in an entirely different way and I have respect for what he does and how he composes shots. So that was what was completely fascinating.

  Denzel Washington

  Doe, Different, Way

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• I'm older, and I'm better. I'm not old, but I'm older and wiser.

  Torii Hunter

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• Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Kids, Adults, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Ridiculous, Foolish

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• The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

  John Templeton

  Wall, Humility, Opposites

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• To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.

  Harold Monro

  Book, Men, Understanding

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• That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

  Bill Bonner

  Wisdom, Learning, Forever

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• A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Wisdom, Maturity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.469

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• Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Animal, Men, Vegetables

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

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• One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, Fifty, Worn

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• Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

  Thomas Browne

  Victory, Credit, Opinion

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• The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Thinking, Just Be Happy

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• I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.

  Lucinda Williams

  Years, Feelings, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Needs

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Wise, Teenager, Thinking

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• In life, you're supposed to get wiser, so as an actor, even just through your own life experiences, you're already richer as a person and have more to pull on. And this job is great for the places it takes you to, the things it makes you interested in and the skills you get to learn.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Jobs, Skills, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Moving, Yoga

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• We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Character, Should Have

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.128

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• Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giving Up, Dark, Doubt

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”

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• Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

  O. Henry

  New York, Men, Long Ago

  O. Henry (2015). “The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…”, p.146, e-artnow

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• Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

  Aeschylus

  Wise

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.418, Delphi Classics

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• In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Stronger, Care

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