If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
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.
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.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
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.
Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception... that assumes you're wiser than them.
You won't be a wiser man if you always keep away from bad people or poor ones.
To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.
Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.