Wiser Quotes

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I`m not the sort that likes to go out and get hammered, I`m not the "Hotel Babylon" (2006) and I let that go years ago now that I am older and wiser.

- John Barrowman

In the beginning I was selfish. It was all about, "How do I build Arnold? How can I win the most Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympic contests? How can I get into the movies and get into business?" I was thinking about myself . . . As I`ve grown up, got older, maybe wiser, I think your life is judged not by how much you have taken but by how much you give back.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I always feel that everything you do in life is a learning experience and that you become a wiser person for it.

- Tiffani Thiessen

I said to this priest: `Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?` He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.

- Diana Dors

I said to this priest: `Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?` He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.

- Diana Dors

Despite this discussion of things spiritual - I still think of myself as a very `human` being. I have the full complement of weaknesses, fears, problems, ego, and sensuality. But I think this is why we`re here - to work our way through all this, and, hopefully, come out a bit wiser and better for having gone through it all.

- Jim Henson

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

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

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

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

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I`ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

- Louis Farrakhan

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

- Winston Churchill

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

- George Bancroft

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don`t believe you get wiser because you get older. It`s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

- Boy George

(A) bit old and wiser and not going as crazy as I used to on the field trying to smash blokes, I`m looking after myself a bit better.

- Andrew Johns

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

Vaughn`s vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie`s (on film Layer Cake)

- Will Self

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.

- A. W. Tozer

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.

- Adam Grossberg

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

- Adam Klein

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.

- Al Gonzales

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

- Al Trout

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.

- Alan Adler

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.

- Alan Adler

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.

- Alan Sandals

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

- Albert Gray

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

- Alex Morrison

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

- Alton Greene

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

- Alvina Tan

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.

- Ana Gomes

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

- Andrew Bosomworth

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.

- Andrew Ladd

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.

- Andrew Lindsey

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.

- Anthony Weeden

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

- Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

- James Thurber

It is wiser to find out than to suppose

- Mark Twain

We are wiser than we know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

- Jonathan Swift

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. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

- Henry Beston

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