A wise man will make more opportunities that he finds.
Francis Bacon
Though a man is wise,
It is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton