Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Sophocles

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon

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

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell