A sadder and a wiser man.
He rose the morrow morn. [ Coleridge ]
Men are wiser than they know. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind. [ Wordsworth ]
The heart is wiser than the intellect, [ J. G. Holland ]
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home. [ Edmund Waller ]
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. [ T. Brake ]
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. [ Bancroft ]
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. [ Pope ]
He is wiser than most men are who is honest. [ Proverb ]
Unprovoked and calm
You reason well, see as you ought to see,
And wonder at the madness of mankind:
Seized with the common rage, you soon forget
The speculations of your wiser hours. [ Armstrong ]
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [ Quinault ]
He's a fool that is wiser abroad than at home. [ Proverb ]
Stillness accompanied with sound so soft,
Charms more than silence. Meditation here
May think down hours to moments. Here the heart
May give an useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books. [ Cowper ]
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. [ Franklin ]
How can you think yourself the wiser for pleasing fools? [ Proverb ]
The owl is not accounted the wiser, for living retiredly. [ Proverb ]
Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages. [ Moore ]
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. [ Seneca ]
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. [ W. E. Channing ]
An affectionate mother wishes that her offspring may be wiser and better than herself. [ Horace ]
God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is wiser to run away when there is no remedy, than to stay and die in the field foolishly. [ Proverb ]
There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
In all companies there are more fools than wise men; and the greater number always get the better of the wiser. [ Rabelais ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speaks the truth. [ Hazlitt ]
Those who are unacquainted with the world take pleasure in the intimacy of great men; those who are wiser dread the consequences. [ Horace ]
O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
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. [ Selden ]
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. [ Lowell ]
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]
Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. [ Thomas Fuller ]
The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]
There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. [ John Ruskin ]