Wiser Quotes - Page 25

• I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

  Michael W. Smith

  Grace, Finishing, Passionate

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Wine, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Lying, Son

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.383

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• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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• As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

  Wendy Carlos

  Grows, Humans, Human Beings

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Learning, People, Pockets

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 22 February 1748

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• My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

  Hillary Clinton

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

  William Cowper

  Yoga, Book, Heart

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author”, p.234

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• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Leadership, Book

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Stupid, Done, Foolish

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Front Cover Friedrich August Hayek, 1944.

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• Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, People

  "Oprah Kardashian Interview: Kim Kardashian Says Was Depressed After Divorce". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

  Marian Keyes

  Stronger, Truth Is, My Truth

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

  Christina Romer

  Educational, America, Goal

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 20, 2011

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sight, Stronger

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• I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

  Cornel West

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

  Willa Cather

  Ideas, Certain, Companion

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

  William Faulkner

  Martini, Bigger, Feels

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