A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles

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

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce

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

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope

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