Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.
The years teach much which the days never know.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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