Wiser Quotes

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

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

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

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.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I think I've got wiser.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

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.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

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.