Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way, And wiser men…

“Be not furious with my tongue, great thane, for it is merely a parrot of wiser men.”

— Scottish Messenger

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

— James Thurber

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the…

— William Hazlitt

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

— Charles Darwin

It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our…

— Joseph Addison

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things…

— Edmund Gibson

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

— Edmund Waller

Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

— Susanna Kearsley

“He believed women to be quantifiably wiser than men. He was neither a breast nor a leg nor an ass man; hair could be…

— C.S. Richardson

Wise men learn from their mistakes, but wiser men learn from the mistakes of others.

— Anonymous

Searching for precious goods leads astray.

— Laozi

“Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.”

— Laurence Bergreen

“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I must do,…

— Haruki Murakami

“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!”

— Miriam Lichtheim