Top 56 Grow Wise Quotes
#1. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
Jonathan Swift
#2. What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
Matthew Arnold
#3. And sometimes we finally grow wise enough to understand life is a gift that can't- shouldn't- last forever.
Jodi Meadows
#4. An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
Idries Shah
#5. Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Josh Billings
#6. He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
Publilius Syrus
#7. She thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself
Milan Kundera
#8. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Holmes
#9. We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.
John Fowles
#10. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#13. You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#14. The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lowly they are.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#16. Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#17. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali
#18. Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.
Paul Graham
#19. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. Tompkins
#20. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.
Andrew Peterson
#21. The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
Nikki Rowe
#22. If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
Huldrych Zwingli
#23. There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
Wayne Rooney
#24. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison
#25. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Confucius
#26. Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
Robert B. Leighton
#27. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#29. She said confidence and arrogance weren't the same, especially in a Dominant, and I'd know I had the right Dom for me when he was....when he was intimidating enough to be arousing, wise enough to keep me safe, and caring enough to help me grow, even when the right choices were hard ones.
M.Q. Barber
#30. The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.
Carl Jung
#31. So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.
Laini Taylor
#33. The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.
Victor Hugo
#34. People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.
Joseph Fink
#35. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#36. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead
#37. 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
#38. Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.
Miguel Syjuco
#39. Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
Gary D. Schmidt
#40. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!
Leonard Bernstein
#41. The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.
James Oppenheim
#42. Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact ...
Chris Wooding
#44. Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Suzy Kassem
#46. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. I whispered to him,
You'll regret it if you let me go.
I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow'
He didn't believe me, he made his choice
&
That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.
Nikki Rowe
#48. Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Mick Jagger
#49. I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Ken Livingstone
#50. Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan
#51. It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity.
John Le Carre
#52. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope
#53. And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He grow angry, and ye perish in the way for His wrath may quickly kindle.
Kouta Hirano
#54. The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#56. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble.
George R R Martin
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