I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

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

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 word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul Engle

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus