Wiser Quotes - Page 6

• One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

  Jane Austen

  Other Half, Should, One Half

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.325, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

  Vera Nazarian

  Men, Intelligent, Creative

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• Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

  Clive Barker

  Stars, Fun, Eye

  "Abarat: The First Book of Hours". Book by Clive Barker, 2002.

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• I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Memories, Years, Mind

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

  Jonathan Swift

  Writing, Yesterday, Rejection

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• A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Hands, Should Have

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• Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

  Susan Fletcher

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

  Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that all I’ve succeeded in doing is swapping one set of delusions for a more elaborate, attractive set of delusions

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Swapping, Action

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.979, Dell

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• Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’ Grandible’s jowl wobbled and creased. Then, for the first time that Neverfell could remember, he changed to a Face she had never seen before, a frown more ferocious and alarming than either of the others. ‘Who the shambles told you that?’ he barked. ‘Spoilt? I’ll spoil them.’ He took hold of her chin and examined her. ‘A bit sadder, maybe. A bit wiser. But nothing rotten. You’re just growing yourself a rind at last. Still a good cheese.

  Frances Hardinge

  Rotten, Answers, Growing

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

  Hugh Prather

  Doe, Knows

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• It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Hands, Wish, Stronger

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.677, Bantam

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• Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Oracles, Thirty

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Colossus: and Other Poems”, p.26, Vintage

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• Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

  Vernon Howard

  Talking, People, Challenges

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• The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.

  Campbell McGrath

  Powerful, Believe, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

  John Ray

  Education, Wise, Learning

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• Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
  Who give her aspirations wings,
  And to the wiser law of music sway
  Her wild imaginings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Wings

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.107

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• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Reading, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligence, Fool, Poor

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• If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Children, Believe, Knowledge

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Retirement, Long Ago, Age

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Adversity, Stronger, Way

  "Come What May, and Love It". www.lds.org. October 2008.

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