Wiser Quotes

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

I think I've got wiser.

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.

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.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

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

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.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

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.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.