Wiser Quotes

• 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
  • Reminder
  • Discretion
  • Alluring

• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Anyone
  • Wiser

• 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
  • Body
  • Stuff
  • Handle

• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mankind
  • Wiser
  • Great Men

• One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Half
  • Wiser

• The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Made
  • Common
  • Policy

• Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Character
  • Generation
  • Wiser

• People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Responsible
  • Crisis
  • Wiser

• 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
  • Men
  • Wiser
  • Nest

• She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Ideas
  • Certain
  • Companion

• 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
  • Morning
  • Conviction
  • Wiser

• 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.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Dreams
  • Romantic
  • Girlfriend

• A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Mind
  • War
  • Decision

• If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

  

  Elizabeth Lowell
  • Wiser
  • Getting Older

• 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
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Memories

• My paintings are wiser than I am.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Paintings
  • Wiser

• 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
  • Wanted
  • Stills
  • Wiser

• When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

  

  Charles Finch
  • Age
  • Decision
  • Wiser

• But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Things
  • Within
  • Hiding

• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  

  William Henry Chase
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Intelligence

• 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
  • Trying
  • Succeed
  • Stronger

• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Wiser

• The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Game
  • Remains
  • Wiser

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