Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.