A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean De La Bruyere
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise
Alden Nowlan
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Voltaire
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.
Richard Cecil
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Robert Burton
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Luther Standing Bear
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Francis Herbert Bradley
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
Henry Miller
Readers of novels are strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture.
Edward Verrell Lucas
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed
Edward Young
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan David Bloom
The stupid fear fortune, the wise endure it.
Latin Proverb