It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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.
Dance, dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The gratification of wealth is not found in possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
A wise man does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those he has.
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
No mortal man is wise at all moments.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
The man who memorizes the words of the wise becomes wise.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
He was a wise man, the one he invented beer.
Wise people speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
God is the hope, we all have inside us and keep us alive. God is the soul, or otherwise the energy we have inside us and help us to deal with everything in life. God is the birth, a new life from nothing, from no existence to existence.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
"Who are wise in love, love most, say least."
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.