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“If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells Looks Stills Age Able Youth Wicked Get Away Wiser

Author:W. H. Auden

“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.”

Writing Doe Reader Intelligent Conviction Arguing Genre Aphorism Wiser Quotations Assertion Implicit Aristocratic

Author:W. H. Auden

“It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.”

Evil Mad Be Good Good And Evil Sane Fierce Wiser Being Me Meek

Book:My Last Duchess and Other Poems

Source: My Last Duchess and Other Poems

“Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.”

Belief Poor Rich Contrary Wiser Contrary To Popular Belief

Book:Sez Who? Sez Me

Source: Sez Who? Sez Me

“If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.”

People Ifs Wisdom Mad Wiser Unbearable Unbearable Things

Book:Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.”

Way Years Ideas Reason Whole Facts Seems Realizing Fit Ordinary Complexes Patterns Work Out Absurd Block Providence I Have Learned Wiser Delay Frustrating Dealings

Book:The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

“The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.”

I Can Reason Use Atheism Depends Positive Atheism Flight Panic Wiser

Book:The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith

Source: The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith

“Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.”

Sometimes Pain Praying Illness Going Away Meant To Be Wiser

Author:Stephen Levine

“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.”

Knows Men Children Earth Pain Life Is Crosses Every Man Wiser Men Women Life Is Pain

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“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.”

People Humans Fighting Human Beings Figures Wiser Wiser You

Author:Vanessa L. Williams

“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.”

People Believe Earth Spirit Spirituality Lessons Deeper Wiser

Author:Glen Hansard

“And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.”

People Littles Reason Sweet Huge Amount Drink Wiser Coke Scotch Ghastly

Author:Bill Bruford

“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”

World Form Consciousness Seeing Wiser

Author:Aidan Chambers

“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.”

Wish Wiser Unifying Principled

Author:Bill Ayers

“People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.”

People Willing Attributes Wiser

Author:P. Chidambaram

“I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.”

Feels Years I Can Stronger Golf Wiser Better Place

Author:Rory McIlroy

“Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.”

World Reality Car Bigger Wiser Motor Motor Cars

Author:Jethro Tull

“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”

Thinking Wells Wise Planning Wiser Being Wise Wisest Planning Ahead

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.”

Believe I Believe Train Smarter Wiser

Author:Tyson Gay

“We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.”

People Should Country Happens Age Values Support Written Wiser Older People Support Systems

Author:Susan Hampshire

“Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others. Your hard journey has had a great purpose! Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love. Have faith. A miracle is happening in your life; the miracle of pain is transforming you to your highest self.”

“Pause and remember - You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!”

Looks Eye Remember Understanding Sides Loss Gratitude One Day Recovery Hardship Wiser Pauses Remember You Remembers You Hang In There

Author:Jennifer Young

“Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!”

“What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.”

Choices Wise Blood Journey Acceptance Truth Is Who You Are Embrace Curse Pool Wiser Reflecting Unchangeable

Author:Joseph M. Marshall III

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