Wiser Quotes
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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
Marianne Williamson
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
William Osler
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It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.
Allan Weisbecker
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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.
William Cowper
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But our young players are older and wiser and the ability is there, so we will be okay.
Bobby Charlton
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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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I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
Abby Sunderland
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
Helen Keller
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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
Al B. Sure!
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.
Randy Alcorn
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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
William Blake
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
Will Self
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When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
Ernest Bramah
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.
Susan Hampshire
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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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I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
Sandra Cisneros
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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Napoleon Bonaparte