Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
My father sacrificed his life for our family when I was growing up. He was one of the bravest, wisest, and most unselfish goats I have ever known, and I will miss his cheese dearly.
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.