Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
James Beattie
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers... →
Yehuda Berg
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an... →
Annie Besant
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human... →
Giraldus Cambrensis