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• Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wiser You

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• But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

  Tyson Gay

  Believe, Smarter, Train

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

  Michael Schenker

  Brother, People, Choices

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• We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

  Susan Hampshire

  Country, Support Systems, People

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• A good proof is one that makes us wiser.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Ontology, Logic, Proof

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• Pause and remember - You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!

  Jennifer Young

  Gratitude, Eye, Recovery

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• Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

  Ray Lewis

  Thinking, Years, Best Year

  "Sporting News Conversation: Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis". Interview with Steve Greenberg, www.sportingnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Yesterday

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• Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

  Criss Jami

  Kings, Hard Work, Humble

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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• To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mean, Difficult Choices, Safety

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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  P. Chidambaram

  People, Attributes, Willing

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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• Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

  Mike Royko

  Belief, Rich, Poor

  Mike Royko (1982). “Sez Who? Sez Me”, Dutton Adult

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• If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wisdom, People, Mad

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.174, Macmillan

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Block, Years, Ideas

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  F. L. Lucas

  Atheism, Use, Panic

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Going Away, Praying

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• When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Children, Pain, Men

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Fighting, People, Wiser You

  "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Disappointment, Moving

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• I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

  Glen Hansard

  Believe, People, Lessons

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• And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

  Bill Bruford

  Sweet, Scotch, People

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• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  Eva Brann

  Beautiful, Liars, Clouds

  Eva Brann “Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad”, Paul Dry Books

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• I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

  Bill Ayers

  Wish, Unifying, Principled

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• What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Wise, Acceptance, Journey

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• Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Responsibility, Men, Community

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