It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself. — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As time passes on I turn the next page To discover a new me while I continue to age. I may no… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller. — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
