The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

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

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
Rick Pitino

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Euripides

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

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 man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader