Wiser Quotes
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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But our young players are older and wiser and the ability is there, so we will be okay.
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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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?
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It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
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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.
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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
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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.
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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.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
