Top 100 Wiser Than Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love
How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.
Robin S. Sharma
#4. Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
Max Ernst
#5. We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.
Marion Dane Bauer
#6. Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. One advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.
Timothy Snyder
#7. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#8. There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction ... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.
Richard Schmid
#9. We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#10. The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.
M. Scott Peck
#11. To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
William Osler
#12. Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.
Susanna Kearsley
#13. My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Barbara Kingsolver
#15. 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 more lovingly , our own.
Margaret Mead
#16. Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.
Carla Kelly
#17. The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
#19. Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
Sandra Cisneros
#21. 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.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#22. All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#23. A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Lady Nancy Astor
#24. Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time.
Laurie Perez
#25. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.
Jack Kerouac
#26. He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.
Benjamin Franklin
#27. Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself above God and act as if you were wiser than He, and would sassily prescribe to Him what condition is best for you.
Thomas Watson
#29. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!
Jennifer Young
#31. Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.
John Farrar
#33. The dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.
Michael G. Williams
#34. People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.
Estelle Getty
#35. Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess.
C. JoyBell C.
#36. None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself." page 270 Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck
#37. Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Matthew Arnold
#38. 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
#39. That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Douglas William Jerrold
#40. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
#41. Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
Ursula Hegi
#42. It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#43. Hey," said Locke, scratching his stubble absently with his quill. "That sounds suspiciously like wisdom, damn your eyes. Why must you always flounce about being wiser than me?" "Doesn't require much conscious effort.
Scott Lynch
#44. I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.
Neil Gaiman
#45. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
#46. Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.
Dorothy Draper
#47. 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.
Walter Savage Landor
#48. I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.
Amandla Stenberg
#50. If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#51. Your firstborn son, Claudius, was all a man could hope for - a son better and wiser than his father.
Pierce Brown
#53. There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.
Greg McKeown
#54. There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#55. Never go to the supermarket when you're hungry.' There you go. Doesn't get wiser than that. Fact.
Miranda Hart
#57. As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me."
"Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?"
"Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.
Catherynne M Valente
#58. You can read all the books in this library, be wiser than the master himself someday, and then you will die having never really done anything. You will have only ever lived through everyone else's experiences.
Elise Kova
#59. I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
#61. Can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even
Jane Austen
#62. Jesus is always with you, even down the pit. At the time he had thought she was just telling him to behave well. But she had been wiser than that. Of course Jesus was with him. Jesus was everywhere. The darkness did not matter, nor the passage of time.
Ken Follett
#63. For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'
George Arthur Buttrick
#64. O my Lord Jesus, answer no desire of mine if it be not according to thy judgment; and if in aught that I have asked I have failed to seek for what I want, amend my pleading, for thou art infinitely wiser than I.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#66. Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#67. Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?
Hugh Prather
#68. Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Carl Jung
#69. Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
Lajos Kossuth
#70. What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. the Sindar they were named, the Grey-elves, the Elves of the Twilight, and King Greymantle was he, Elu Thingol in the tongue of that land. And Melian was his Queen, wiser than any child of Middle-earth;
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
#73. The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Leo Strauss
#74. No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
William Hazlitt
#75. It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
Philippe Quinault
#76. Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
Jeremy Bentham
#78. There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
Margaret Of Valois
#79. An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
#80. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
Andrew Murray
#81. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut
#82. Your desire to advise other people,
grows in line with your perception ...
that assumes you're wiser than them.
Toba Beta
#84. There is no better teacher than adversity;
there is none wiser than its student.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#85. I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
Clement Attlee
#87. One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers ...
Heinrich Hertz
#88. What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all posterity - wiser than those who will have had more experience, - the old desire of ruling over posterity - the old recipe for enabling the dead to chain down the living
Jeremy Bentham
#89. A tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.
Juliet Marillier
#90. We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
Anthony Trollope
#91. That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.
Gemma Burgess
#93. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
Richard Bach
#94. I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
Plato
#95. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest
sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Charlie Munger
#96. Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
Byron Katie
#99. To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
M.C. Escher
