It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley