Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy Lamarr

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Wilbur Wright

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon

A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison