Wiser Quotes

561 quotes by 433 authors

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser. — Sharon Salzberg
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. — James Thurber
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. — Kurt Vonnegut
No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in… — John Ruskin
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to… — Cornel West
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didnâ€™t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide… — Hunter S. Thompson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. — Willa Cather
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding… — William Faulkner
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful… — Isaac Asimov
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and… — Philip Pullman
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Love is wiser than wisdom. — Umberto Eco
...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. — P.G. Wodehouse
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment… — Kurt Vonnegut
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about… — Mortimer Adler

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