Wiser Quotes - Page 12

• Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

  Christopher Paolini

  Moderation, Policy, Zealotry

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1508, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Years, Stronger

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• Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.

  Jethro Tull

  Reality, Car, World

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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

  Tyson Gay

  Believe, Smarter, Train

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Adversity, People, Challenges

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• There was once 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 came on his 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.

  Aesop

  Summer, Blow, Men

  "Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

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• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Richard Shelby

  Country, Believe, Order

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• No man is the wiser for his learning

  John Selden

  Learning, Men

  John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77

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• Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

  Bill Maher

  Mistake, Past, Order

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• Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Bird, Robins

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• Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.

  John Aylmer

  Nice, Women, Two

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Generations, Aging, Nonsense

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• The loser, when a game of dice is done,
  remains behind reviewing every roll
  sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wisdom, Games, Done

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.83, Penguin

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• The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Men, Self

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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

  Horace Greeley

  Important, Use, Mankind

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• A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Wise, Men, Neighbor

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wiser You

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• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Failure, Learning, Errors

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Buddhism, Meditation

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• I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Disappointment, Moving

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• Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

  Mooji

  Mind, Life Is, Imagine

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• Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Powerful, Men, Society

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Shame

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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