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  • Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

    "Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2010.
  • 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.

    Wisdom   Men   May  
    John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77
  • As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

    Travel   Home   Memorable  
    "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.
  • The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

    Mistake   Years   Worry  
  • People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

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

  • In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

  • Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

  • People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

    "Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84". The New York Times, July 23, 2008.
  • 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.

  • If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.

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

    Ego   Gone   Window  
  • Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  • Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

    Life   Children   Failure  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

    Artist   Publicity   May  
    "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 2014.
  • I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  • So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost

    Song: Wake Me Up, Album: Lift Your Spirit, 2013
  • To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

    Dog   Angel   Thinking  
    Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.33
  • She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

    Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.37, Courier Corporation
  • Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything...'

  • Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

    Law   Apples   Important  
    Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.42, Booklassic
  • We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

    Should   Wiser   Scorn  
    Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead
  • His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

    Moving   Men   Tree  
    Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.17, Penguin
  • Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

    Voice   Path   Helping  
  • I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

    Sex   Broken   Promise  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1833). “The history and adventures of the renowned don Quixote: from the Span., by T. Smollett. To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by T. Roscoe. Illustr. by G. Cruikshank”, p.155
  • Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

  • He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

    Love   Wise   Philosophy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher
  • The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

    Wise   Wisdom   Cat  
  • Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

  • ... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

    Believe   Men   Ideas  
    Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”
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