Wiser Quotes

561 quotes by 433 authors

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak. — Sylvia Plath
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried… — Karl Pilkington
But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, â€˜after I fail, what then?â€™ If youâ€™ve chosen well, after you fail you… — Seth Godin
Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. — C.E. Murphy
Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our… — George S. Clason
You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What… — Harold Klemp
There is something in us that is wiser than our head. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. — Kin Hubbard
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. — Josh Billings
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative. — Rick Warren
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over… — Alberto Manguel
Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes.… — Jim Butcher
Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the… — Varg Vikernes
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he… — Socrates
By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. — John Templeton
He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague… — Tao Lin
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today. — Charles Spurgeon
Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier. — Betty White

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