The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey

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

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary

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

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

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

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

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

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

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