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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus Aurelius
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Saint Augustine
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
