Wiser Quotes

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

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

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

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.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

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

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

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

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.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.