Wiser Quotes

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber

Women, Men, Understand

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Bryant H. McGill

Strength, Truth, Ignorance

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Great, True

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper

Learning, Heart, May

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Done, Before, Learn

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield

Learning, Learned, Show

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
Lord Chesterfield

Advice, Used, Days

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Men, Law, Older

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
Bryant H. McGill

Truth, Around, Knowing

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Truth, Losing, Makes

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett

Help, Find, Path

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi

Wisdom, Yourself, Ignorance

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne

Truth, Makes, Getting

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
John Maynard Keynes

President, Looked, Seated

I think I've got wiser.
Vivienne Westwood

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Judge, Learn, Means

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor

Religion, Him, Himself

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene

Lost, Against, Ourselves

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.
Giada De Laurentiis

Family, Older, Chef

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

Through, Grow, Stage

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Thomas Mann

Future, Important, Humanity

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards

Today, Mistakes, Opinion

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
James P. Hogan

Problem, Whole, Themselves

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Jeffrey Kluger

Nothing, Often, Listen

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden

Work, Wisdom, Learning

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft

Public, Wisest, Critic

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

Money, Rich, Poor

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges

Themselves, Aggressive, Decided

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

Age, Happy, Old

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