Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus

The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle