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.
Jonathan Swift

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
Bill Bruford

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.
Joseph Addison

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor

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.
James Madison

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
Richard Shelby