Wiser Quotes
561 quotes by 433 authors
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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his…
— Aesop
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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country…
— Richard Shelby
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No man is the wiser for his learning
— John Selden
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Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
— Bill Maher
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Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each…
— Dorothy Draper
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a…
— Unknown Author
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Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can…
— Stephen Fry
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this…
— Richard J. Foster
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus…
— Horace Greeley
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The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
— Bernard Lietaer
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Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
— Arthur Guiterman
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Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser…
— Deena Kastor
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
— Tom Robbins
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Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.
— Mooji
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Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer,…
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
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There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once…
— Greg McKeown
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Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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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…
— Melissa Etheridge
Who Wrote These Wiser Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 561 Wiser Quotes, led by these top contributors: