I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.
Even the people I surround myself with. . . are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.