#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. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#child #children #cross #each #earth

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

— William Ellery Channing

#grow #more #noble #pass #serene

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#illusion #losing #makes #than #truth

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. ↗

— William Cowper

#down #give #grow #head #heart

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

— Tyson Gay

#get #i #i believe #i believe the #older

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#better #contrary #crises #deal #i

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#growing #grown #happy #his #honest

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before. ↗

— Arthur Guiterman

#before #clears #error #proves #score

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ↗

— James Thurber

#know #less #men #more #than

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#bit #even #i #little #little bit