My truth is that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
I’m a better artist and I’m a better person because I’m wiser, and stronger and I know who’s hip for me and who ain’t.
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
I don’t care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I’ve grown older I’ve become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn’t like what I do, that’s up to them, I really don’t care.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience – in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it’s the most important job in the world.
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I’m in a good place.
