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• A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ideas, Catholic, May

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• The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Men, Wisest

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Andersen's Fairy Tales: The complete collection”, p.626, Hans Christian Andersen

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• Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

  Charles Fourier

  Flower, Men, Thorns

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• There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

  William E. Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

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• These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Jesus, Believe, Gun

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• I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

  Clement Attlee

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.

  Rafe Martin

  Letting Go, Creating, Space

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• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Giving, Advice, Suggestions

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• For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Dream, Heart, Self

  "Tapping Into Dreams for Intuitive Decision-Making" by Christina Lemieux, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2015.

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• Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Men

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Positivity, Thinking, Knowing

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Best Effort, Careers, Giving

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: on being stereotyped, his deep-fried childhood, and letting failure make you stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, fyeahiananthonydale.tumblr.com. 2016.

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• I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Years, Needs

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach.

  MC Lyte

  Different, Viewpoints, Way

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blogarama Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset Maugham novel). This was Bill Murray's first dramatic role so everyone thought he stunk in this deep character but I thought he and the movie were great. The movie takes place over decades so you see Murray's character go from goofy playboy all the way to wiser, older person. It's basically a movie version of the journey I described.

  Lewis Schiff

  Character, Journey, Roles

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

  Meister Eckhart

  Wise, True God, Ifs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Democratic Socialism, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

  Liv Ullmann

  Men, Age, Knows

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Parent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Learning, Mean

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.

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• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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