Quotes About Wisdom

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

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.

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

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

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.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I'm in a good place.

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.

I'm just getting wiser as I get older.

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.