Wiser Quotes - Page 6

• Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Powerful, Men, Society

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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Shame

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.

  Alberto Manguel

  Stars, Memories, Leaving

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Just imagine" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2001.

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Soul, Depth

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• It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

  Cindy Crawford

  Soul, Like You, Your Soul

  "8 Surprisingly Down-To-Earth Wellness Tips From Cindy Crawford" By Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stronger, Negative, Hardship

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• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  Usher

  Hair, Salt, Peppers

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• Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

  Arthur Hailey

  War, World, May

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• ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.

  Fred Vargas

  Love, Strong, Home

  "An Uncertain Place". Book by Fred Vargas, 2008.

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• To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

  Arianna Huffington

  Self, Soul, Mind

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• To be, contents his natural desire,
  He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
  But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
  His faithful dog shall bear him company.
  Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
  Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Angel, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.33

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• It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

  Edmund Gibson

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

  Keith Urban

  People, Mentor, Wish

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• A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Yesterday, Littles

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• ... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Wise, Christian, Pride

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.94, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Fancy

  "Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

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• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

  Tao Lin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Acknowledge You, Yesterday

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• Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.

  Betty White

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• I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

  Bill Withers

  Wisdom, Looks, Judgment

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Stronger, Ever After

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