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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia Loren
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
