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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Laozi
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
