Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

I'm not very wise to many things.
Charles Manson

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Laozi

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

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

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

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Euripides

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides

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