I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

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

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

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

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

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian