We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Stevie Nicks

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
Auberon Herbert