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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
I'm not very wise to many things.
Charles Manson
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes
