Wiser Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Getting Older, Looks, Getting Old

  "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sky, Needs, Orion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.199, Anchor

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• To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Yesterday, Today, Realizing

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• I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering, 'Why are we here?' The only time I ever asked myself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.

  Karl Pilkington

  Holiday, Years, People

  "Karl Pilkington gets attacked by a crab and swims through poo in The Moaning of Life series 2 trailer" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. August 3, 2015.

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• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  Seth Godin

  What If, Stronger, Trying

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• Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

  C.E. Murphy

  New Experiences

  C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.32, Harlequin

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• Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

  George S. Clason

  Thinking, Keys, Understanding

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem?

  Harold Klemp

  Would Be, Hardship, Remember

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• There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Mistake, Men, Entrepreneur

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• It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Profit

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

  Rick Warren

  People, Perspective, Creative

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• And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.

  Alberto Manguel

  Stars, Memories, Leaving

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Fancy

  "Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

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• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

  Tao Lin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Acknowledge You, Yesterday

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• Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

  Betty White

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• I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

  Bill Withers

  Wisdom, Looks, Judgment

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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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Stronger, Ever After

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• How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Price Tag, Decision, Choices

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