Quotes on Wiser

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

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

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.