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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
