We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

A crisis is a great teacher. So, learn to love your crisis. Going through it with acceptance, and a seeking spirit, you will emerge stronger, wiser and happy!

Without grace nothing is possible. Through every crisis that you have faced, you have become stronger, wiser and awakened. This cannot have been possible without grace. A crisis, a Life challenge, is often grace in disguise.

Simpler the outfit, wiser the outlook.

We are all a product of circumstances that we are put through and experience in Life. But we often don't see Life from this point of view. We are quick to believe that we are a victim of our circumstances. When you are in a victim mode you are constantly grieving, complaining and suffering. But when you see each experience, each circumstance, as what is shaping you and making you better, you evolve and grow ? stronger, wiser and happy!

It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.

Do we have human rights or our rights are limited by those who think they have power over us. Those who think they are richer than us. Those who think they are smarter or wiser than us. Those who think they are more educated or more qualified than us and by those who think they are better than us.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Every single thing happens for you for a reason. Even if you can't see it right now, and it all feels confusing or unfair. Every storm you walk through and walk out of makes you a stronger, wiser, and more resilient human being. You'll never be the same person who entered when you exit, and that's something to embrace, not fear.

Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.

We are wiser than we know.

"When one has a mighty opponent that can't be defeated, it is wiser to become its friend rather than an enemy.

As you get wiser, you realize materialism only enrich the rich and impoverish your soul.

Life will never be this simple again, the voice in my head reminded me. Enjoy it while it lasts. Sear moments like this on your consciousness, so you can recall them when the going gets rough. Because it will. The voice sounded different than the one I usually heard in my mind. It seemed older and wiser somehow, and almost prophetic.

can one dispute that the wiser a person is, the more effective and content and meaning-rich they will be? I would say not. It is more difficult to define and research wisdom than it is to theorize about it. As an illustration, take two identical race cars and put two very different drivers behind the wheels; the success each driver will enjoy more often than not, is directly related to their skill level ? their proficiency. One can likewise think of a wise person as proficient at living life.

"When you know the secret to mastering self and this world, then you must have understood that it is wiser to keep it to yourself, and just pretend to be a happy moron.

?one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half?

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.