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• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Average, Voice

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• 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.

  Bettany Hughes

  Past, History, Stronger

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• Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

  Seth

  Men, Ties, Giving

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• A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Clever, Heart

  John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• The tale is often wiser than the teller.

  Susan Fletcher

  Tales

  Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

  Susan Fletcher

  People, Needs, Stories

  Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

  David Berman

  Principles, Purpose, Care

  David Berman (1997). “Berkeley”

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• There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

  Cameron Diaz

  Crazy, Believe, Hands

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• The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

  George Bancroft

  Public Speaking, Critics, Wisest

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417

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

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Spaniards, Seems

  Essays "Of SeemingWise" (1625)

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• It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Father, Believe, Son

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• All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

  William Ellery Channing

  Wise, Noble, Enthusiasm

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(420 p.)”, p.60

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• There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Getting Older, Quality

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

  Paul Washer

  Thinking, Judging, Deceiving

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.

  Tom Szaky

  Business, Mistake, Knowing

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• When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Father, Discovery

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.101

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• I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

  Allan Weisbecker

  Doubt, Rising, Stumbling

  Source: www.surfrhythm.com

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• 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.

  Sam Harris

  Profound, Advice, Levels

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Mean, Years, Guy

  "Charlie Hunnam on 'Fifty Shades' Co-Star: There's 'Tangible Chemistry Between Us'" by Sophie Schillaci , Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 7, 2013.

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

  Jonathan Swift

  Acknowledge You, Yesterday, World

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Wise, Spiritual, Yesterday

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.97, Image

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• For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner, more skilled and, ultimately, wiser.

  Rob Hopkins

  Humble, World, Natural

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• When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

  Al B. Sure!

  Gentleman

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Years, Grace

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