I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
Rick Pitino
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like... →
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
A word to the wise is enough.