Be Wiser Quotes

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

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

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

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

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

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

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

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.

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.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

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 one way, my understanding another.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

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 want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

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 books.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

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.

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.