#wiser

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#always #bell #calls #dumb #guard

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. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#age #become #countries #get #happens

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#done #foolish #grow #learn #much

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#action #free #freedom #him #learn

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts. ↗

— James P. Hogan

#certain #doubts #fanatics #fools #full

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. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#effective #had #i #i wish #more

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#days #frequently #now #take #than

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#composes #himself #than #wiser

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously. ↗

— Boy George

#believe #choice #get #goal #i

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

#conceited #differently #even #him #himself