Quotes with wiser

  • Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
  • 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.
  • All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arthur Guiterman Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
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  • Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Alexander Pope A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Ellery Channing All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bill Bruford And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ludwig Borne Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Tryon Edwards He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Winston Churchill In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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