There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
- George Polya (1887-1985)
In aging, one becomes more foolish and more wise.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French author
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
- Michel de Montaigne
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
- Elbert Hubbard
The wise speak when they have something to say, the fools speak when they have to say something.
- Anonymous
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital....
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds
- Francis Bacon
If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies.
- Helen Castle
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
- Yiddish Proverb
Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday
- Martial
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise
- Samuel Jackson
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise
- Samuel Johnson
He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise
- Lao-Tzu
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
- Chinese Proverb
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao-Tzu
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