A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges
Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan
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.
Bill Bruford
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
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
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
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
Randy Moss
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