Wiser Quotes
561 Wiser quotes by 433 unique authors
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We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of…
— Anton Chekhov
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But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient…
— Jim Butcher
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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us…
— Helen Keller
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also,…
— Dorothy Parker
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we…
— Oscar Wilde
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Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was…
— Jonathan Nolan
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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away…
— Lisa Lutz
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Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
— George S. Clason
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The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk;…
— Steven Johnson
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We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I…
— Darren Shan
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We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.
— Stephenie Meyer
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy,…
— Beverly Cleary
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
— Alain de Botton
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your…
— Lawrence Durrell
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…I feel like he’s taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and…
— S.J. Watson
Who Wrote These Wiser Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 561 Wiser Quotes, led by these top contributors: