Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
Ann Landers
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
Lord Melbourne
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
We're a little bit older and a little bit wiser.
Anthony King
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
It's a positive investment that will help them increase efficiency and take the offensive. Given the size of the investments needed for these next-generation factories, it's much wiser to team up and share the financial burden.
Naoki Fujiwara
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne
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
A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.
Stephen Crane
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
Richard Shelby
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut
But our young players are older and wiser and the ability is there, so we will be okay.
Bobby Charlton
Until we know exactly what we want, there's not much point in trying to work out grant applications or anything like that. I think we would be a lot wiser to leave those questions until we've had some input on the design and those costs.
Randy Lewis
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
We're a year older and a year wiser, and Morgan is more of a dominant player. We're a better outside shooting team, and we have one more year of playing in bigger games.
Dave Hoover
They got better as the year went along last year. They are now stronger, quicker, and wiser than they were a year ago. Martin is the newcomer to the group and he has done well in practice.
Mike Hidde
People come here to simply try and do well at whatever level they are capable of doing. It helps the younger kids get older and wiser. It helps the older guys feel younger.
Gwyn Howat
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Friedrich August Hayek
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell
We were playing the Rams in Anaheim and I threw a deep ball to Ricky. That might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now ... well, except maybe he's a little wiser and has a whole lot less hair.
Steve Beuerlein
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow
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
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead
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
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
Henry Beston
There's a way for them to continue to be an essential part of the mix, but they do risk being made irrelevant if they don't change their ways. It's not inevitable that the window between theaters and DVDs will disappear, but theaters would be wiser to pay more attention and explore all the alternatives. With certain movies, it might be smarter to have a simultaneous release.
Dade Hayes
There will definitely be enforcement. Wiser water use is going to happen in Massachusetts. We didn't want everybody to end up in an Ipswich River situation.
Duane Levangie
In Pat's younger years, he was sporadic and he often would make the wrong moves at the wrong times to put himself in a bad position. Experience is one of the best teachers and Pat is a much wiser wrestler these days. He has become a very good technician and he makes much better decisions. Pat is now a much more consistent wrestler from one match to the next.
Deryll Rohda
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
If a salesperson shows you a gee-whiz but complicated financial product, you can be sure of two things: You don't need it and it's overpriced. You can get the same result with something easier, wiser and lower-cost.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Very likely I did, ... I hope I grow wiser every year.
John Hunter
That's OK (because) I'll be the one that's older and wiser.
Pat Williams
People are more prepared since then, whether that is media owners with more opportunities or, more importantly, clients who have taken a wiser look at it.
Peter Charlton
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Muslih uddin Sadi
His career delivers this message: It can be wiser to follow than to lead. Let the innovators hit the beaches and take the losses; if you hold back and follow, you can clean up in peace and quiet.
David Gelernter
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos
I'm older and wiser, and while patience is still a virtue most coaches lack, it's obviously part of the equation.
Beth Burns
Every 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
It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pissed off as we ever were.
Billy Duffy
The 6 percent option is the wiser choice. (Asking for) 10 percent is like going double or nothing ? 6 percent seems like it would be a lot easier to sell. It seems to be the reasonable choice to me.
Randy Martin
More schooled, more educated, a little wiser, and hopefully I can do a better job.
Bob Goldstein
I'm a little wiser, obviously a little older, more experience, and I'm really starting to not sweat the small stuff. I was a completely different person than I am now.
Arron Oberholser
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
I had more fun making the movie than I did making the show Off-Broadway [where Rent began]. I'm older and wiser, and all the people that I was working with are now my close friends, as opposed to brand new friends. It was like going to camp with your old friends.
Adam Pascal
If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.
Loretta Young
Experience is always a great thing, ... The older you are, the wiser you get. We've got some guys with experience who have been there, done that. There were some setbacks with the injuries last year but I'm done with that.
Derek Morris
I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.
Armistead Maupin
I'm not ripping and running the streets no more, hitting the clubs and all that. I'm wiser. I'm not a jitterbug anymore. I'm settled down.
Shannon Briggs
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.
Elizabeth I
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.
Edmund Waller
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
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