Wiser Quotes - Page 4

• Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

  Philip Pullman

  Humble, Stronger, Want

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Wisdom, Educational

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• Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

  Charles Kingsley

  Inspirational Love, Lying, Night

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

  Katie Holmes

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  "Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!". Interview with Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. March 1, 2009.

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• Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Consciousness, Influence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

  Jim Butcher

  Clueless, Men, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2423, Penguin

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• Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

  Booth Tarkington

  Law, Apples, Important

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.42, Booklassic

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• He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Rose, Morrow

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 7

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Wise, Strive, Folly

  Raymond E. Feist (1986). “Magician, apprentice”, Spectra Books

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• Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

  Paul Stewart

  Wise, Pairs, Worn

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• He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Complaining

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.261, Univ of California Press

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• We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Stupid, Nice

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• But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Angel, Sea

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

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• The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

  Jim Butcher

  Choices, Enemy, Stronger

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.144, Penguin

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• I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Angel, Opportunity

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.142, Om Books International

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• But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Wedding, Hate

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “De Profundis”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Optimistic, Long, Waiting

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Punishment, Asking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• ....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.

  Lisa Lutz

  Growing Up, Thinking, Dental Floss

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

  George S. Clason

  Richest Man In Babylon, Our Thoughts

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Mistake, Writing

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin

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• We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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