Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

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

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
John Chrysostom

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia Loren

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

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

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

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

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