Wiser Quotations

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Until we know exactly what we want, there's not much point in trying to work out grant applications or anything like that. I think we would be a lot wiser to leave those questions until we've had some input on the design and those costs.

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.

I will fight you, and I will be wiser doing it. I just don't want to take punches for no reason, but at the same time I need to box from the outside. I can box and make him miss. But if I want to get in the trenches and fight, I can do that also. I do not fear anybody anymore as far as taking their shot.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world, doesn't mean that you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

People are more prepared since then, whether that is media owners with more opportunities or, more importantly, clients who have taken a wiser look at it.

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.

I think people are still not throwing money at everything that has a 'dot.com' on the end of it. I think slow and steady is going to win the race, especially if we have broad, selective and wiser investors.

It does still seem like Andy's the leader of the pack and will continue to be, ... but we're all doing our best. I think we all hit a little slump at one point ... but we're all, I think, better and wiser for it now.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

The 6 percent option is the wiser choice. (Asking for) 10 percent is like going double or nothing ? 6 percent seems like it would be a lot easier to sell. It seems to be the reasonable choice to me.

This study provides encouragement to all American men who are concerned about prostate cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that the omega-3 fatty acids in seafood may exert a protective effect against the spread of prostate cancer. A simple step like adding canned tuna and other fatty fish to the diet can help stop the spread of this disease in men with early prostate cancer. This information may help men make wiser food choices.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

To reduce the unfortunate personalization of the process in particular in the wake of the inherently divisive impeachment proceedings, the wiser course, I believe, is for another individual to head the investigation.

We've got the seniors that have all gone through this league. We're no different than Oklahoma State was last year. We're older and we're wiser and we don't get rattled.

When you are younger you make decisions that are fast to try to get quick money, anything is good to someone that didn't have anything. When you are older, and you realize your true marketing potential, you begin to make wiser decisions. And truthfully speaking, I don't think they want wise decisions for artists, so they create a quick fly by night act and show, and expect them to disappear in a few years.

Experience is always a great thing, ... The older you are, the wiser you get. We've got some guys with experience who have been there, done that. There were some setbacks with the injuries last year but I'm done with that.

But our young players are older and wiser and the ability is there, so we will be okay.

We were playing the Rams in Anaheim and I threw a deep ball to Ricky. That might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now ... well, except maybe he's a little wiser and has a whole lot less hair.

Very likely I did, ... I hope I grow wiser every year.

Each year, guys get older and wiser and more mature. And now we have the kind of leadership to where it's really going to help us down the road.

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master.

You take those guys a year older, a year wiser and a year stronger, and you have to look at that and say that's a strength.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

This is not an election. It would have been wiser for Hosni Mubarak to win by a small margin or even lose, than win in a fabricated way.

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.

They got better as the year went along last year. They are now stronger, quicker, and wiser than they were a year ago. Martin is the newcomer to the group and he has done well in practice.

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 bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.''

There's a way for them to continue to be an essential part of the mix, but they do risk being made irrelevant if they don't change their ways. It's not inevitable that the window between theaters and DVDs will disappear, but theaters would be wiser to pay more attention and explore all the alternatives. With certain movies, it might be smarter to have a simultaneous release.

As social scientists, our job is to provide an analytical approach that asks better questions to help people make wiser choices.

(A) bit old and wiser and not going as crazy as I used to on the field trying to smash blokes, I'm looking after myself a bit better.

It seems wiser to consolidate the policymaking and the funding allocation responsibilities in the same body, ... When you have multiple boards existing in a climate of dysfunction, you lose accountability.

It's a positive investment that will help them increase efficiency and take the offensive. Given the size of the investments needed for these next-generation factories, it's much wiser to team up and share the financial burden.

It's tough in the Hip Hop industry to continue to create, because the powers that be want a throw away art. They didn't think Rap Music would even last. So instead of trying to get rid of rap music, because everyone benefits from it, they try to get rid of seasoned rappers, at a point in their careers when they finally know the ins and outs of the business aspect of their careers. You see what Prince did when he realized that he didn't own anything, he put slave on his cheek. He came to a point in his career where he was educated enough to be wiser in his choices and realized his true leverage power.

These older and wiser guys are digging, trying to get a wagon wheel out of the mud after a storm, and the two younger cowboys -- who are supposed to be helping -- are doing nothing -- just like boys will tend to do, ... It's things like that, that make a movie real.

I'm anticipating another stellar season. These guys are older, wiser and hopefully better.

In Pat's younger years, he was sporadic and he often would make the wrong moves at the wrong times to put himself in a bad position. Experience is one of the best teachers and Pat is a much wiser wrestler these days. He has become a very good technician and he makes much better decisions. Pat is now a much more consistent wrestler from one match to the next.

I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

I know James and me are different players, but I know he is going to go in there and he will play fine. James is a talented guy. He is smart. He is one of those rookies that seems a lot wiser and has a lot more wisdom beyond his years. I think in terms of going out there and playing, I think we will be fine at the strong safety position. He is going to go out there and make plays. He is a tough guy.

It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man

His conclusion, in essence, is that much of the productivity explosion of recent years is permanent, but there is a risk that there is significant cyclical element too. Unfortunately, this leaves us none the wiser as to his intentions at the next (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

My paintings are wiser than I am.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

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 get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

No man is the wiser for his learning