Wiser Quotes

• Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

  Leon Brown

  Negative Experiences, Joy, Bitter

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

  Drake

  Pain, Stronger, Make Me Strong

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• 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.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, The End Of The Day

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• I live in the realm
  of romantic possibility.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dating, Man Of My Dreams, Possibility

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

  Aidan Chambers

  World, Consciousness, Form

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Wise, Thinking, Planning Ahead

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• If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, People, Inspire

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

  Black Elk

  Dream, Wake Up, Waking

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

  Philippe Quinault

  Wise, Wisdom, Being Wise

  "Armide". 1686.

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• Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  George Orwell

  Badass, Intelligent, Imagination

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Silly, Age

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

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• We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.

  Jeanette

  Pain, Heart, Tears

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• To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Mind, Speak

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.140

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Adversity, Stronger

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

  James Thurber

  Funny, Witty, Maturity

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• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

  Ludwig Borne

  Life, Truth, Sunset

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• You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dream, Girlfriend, Men

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