Wiser Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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• It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wise, Mistake, Said

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• A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Enemy, Knows

  "Go Set A Watchman, Atticus Finch & Killing Your Idols" by Genna Rivieccio, theopiatemagazine.com. August 10, 2015.

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• Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Justice, Action

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• I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

  Jon Spaihts

  Stars, Mean, Enlightenment

  Source: www.mtv.com

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