As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.
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.
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.
As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.
A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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.
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.
In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent
If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.
Now that I'm older and wiser, and I know what that word means and what it possesses... I'm like, 'Yes, I am a mahu and you should look up to me!'
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.
If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.
I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.
I'm a better artist and I'm a better person because I'm wiser, and stronger and I know who's hip for me and who ain't.
Now that I'm a wiser, older human, when I do photo shoots, I specifically say, 'Please do not airbrush my moles out.' Because they will do it, to make you homogenized.
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.'
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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.
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.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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.
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
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.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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