Wiser Quotes - Page 16

• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Retirement, Long Ago, Age

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Publicity, May

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 2014.

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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• 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.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Comforting, Easier

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• To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

  Max Ernst

  Beauty, Teaching, Philosopher

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• And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Hope, Humble, Men

  "Louis Farrakhan Discusses His Role in the Murder of Malcolm X". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2000.

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• We are wiser than we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educational, Frustrated, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.174, Penguin

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• A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

  Jock Sturges

  People, Minorities, Tiny

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

  Andrew Davidson

  Wise, Lying, Men

  "The Gargoyle". Book by Andrew Davidson, August 5, 2008.

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• We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

  Marie de France

  Should, Scorn, Ifs

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

  George Saintsbury

  Romance, Mind, Division

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition

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• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Acceptance, Bygones, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

  Antonya Nelson

  Taken, Character, Hardship

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• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

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

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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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• Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Government, People, Office

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• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Men, World

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• Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability

  Timothy Geithner

  War, Thinking, Want

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• Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Add, Lists

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Believe, Past

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• Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Time, Work

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