Quotes About Wisdom

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

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.

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.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I don't care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I've grown older I've become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn't like what I do, that's up to them, I really don't care.

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.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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.

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!

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

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

The older you are, the wiser you are. The more comfortable you are in your own skin, the more you know yourself, the more patient you are. I don't sweat the small stuff any more.

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.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.