A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon

A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon

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

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes