Quotes with wiser

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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bayard Taylor There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Thomas Moore Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alain de Botton Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
    A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are wiser than we know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anthony de Mello When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
    One Minute Wisdom
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Billy Ocean When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
    Billy Ocean
     
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  • Saadi Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Auberon Herbert 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
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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