Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
William Godwin

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana

The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
George W. Bush

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan P. Smith

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.
Pericles

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
Layne Staley

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian