Wiser Quotes - Page 21

• I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.

  Hank Aaron

  Fall, Light, Forgive Me

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• If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Wise, Prayer, Learned Person

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• The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

  Jeremy Irons

  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.

  Joe Rogan

  Selfish, Thinking, Interesting Conversation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Night, Feelings, Getting Older

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Book, Reading

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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, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

  Romy Schneider

  Wise, Maturity, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Rivalry, Cures, Unhealthy

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• The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Light, Differences

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