Wiser Quotes

561 Wiser quotes by 433 unique authors

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
We are wiser than we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more… — Louis Farrakhan
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. — Malcolm Forbes
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read… — Buddy Hackett
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. — Friedrich August von Hayek

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