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

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer

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

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

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

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

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Arthur Ashe

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

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

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley