Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne
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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle
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These days, as I am older and wiser, I realize that there is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you.
Giorgio Armani
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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Black Elk
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I think I've got wiser.
Vivienne Westwood
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I've become a lot wiser over the years.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Michael Franti
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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
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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
Richard Shelby
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
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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.
Bill Ayers
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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
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Aidan Chambers
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. Chidambaram
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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.
John Selden
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager
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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Marian Keyes
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