Wiser Quotes

561 Wiser quotes by 433 unique authors

Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to… — Charlie Munger
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser… — Thomas Dubay
If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your… — Frederick Lenz
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me… — Unknown Author
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… — William Graham Sumner
If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser.… — Loretta Young
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded,… — Richard Schmid
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On… — Napoleon Bonaparte
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. — William Osler
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. — Ann Landers
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)… — Criss Jami
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with. — Bill Vaughan
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. — Benjamin Franklin
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who… — Graham Greene
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his… — William Cowper
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. — Charles Darwin
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. — Marlene Dietrich
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just… — Giada De Laurentiis
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. — Black Elk

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