Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby