Wiser Quotes
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To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.
Alexander Ostrovsky -
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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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
Al B. Sure! -
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
William Osler -
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake -
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 -
It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pissed off as we ever were.
Billy Duffy The Cult -
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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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon -
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 -
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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 -
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 -
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
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 -
People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
Wilma Mankiller -
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 -
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
Jane Austen -
It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.
Edmund Gibson
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Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
Will Self -
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 -
I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.
Nicholas Sparks -
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