Famous quotes containing the word wiser:
“If a man would allot half an hour every night for self-conversation, and recapitulate with himself whatever he has done, right or wrong, in the course of the day, he would be both the better and the wiser for it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Good books do not make people wiser or happier—only more conscious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)