Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale

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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

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

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

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

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

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

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

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

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus

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

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

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