An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I've always felt that my career was in wiser hands than mine. Whatever, in its good time, is supposed to happen will happen.

So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

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.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

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.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

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.

Mistakes happen, and we must choose what to do with them. We can ignore them, or we can learn and evolve into someone better and wiser.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

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.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

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.

At some point I got sick of people calling me Bonzo junior. But now that I'm older and wiser, I'm just honored to be mentioned in the same breath.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.

I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

My son has been wiser than me in terms of his career graph. He saw to it that he became a star first and start to get all the roles that he wanted to do.

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.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

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.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

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