Wiser Quotes
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
Horace Greeley
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
Raymond E. Feist
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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
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle
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If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
Seth Godin
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A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
Stewart Udall
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The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Dante Alighieri
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If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
Elizabeth Lowell
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
William Henry Chase
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But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.
Catherynne M. Valente