Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and…

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

— Samuel Johnson

To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

— Chip Ingram

Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love…

— Michael Ende

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

— Gregory Corso

Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get…

— Kimberley Strassel

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community…

— J.P. Moreland

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

— Louise Rosenblatt

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

— Michel de Montaigne

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you…

— Donato Giancola

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

— John Milton

It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in…

— Anonymous

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

— Alan Alda