Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken