The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. Ecclus.
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. Burke.
The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind. Wordsworth.
The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. Foster.
The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness 20 of a child. Emerson.
The wisest, happiest of our kind are they / That ever walk content with Nature's way. Wordsworth.
The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His secrets universally to the seeing eye and the hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness is nowhere wanting, only the sense to discern it, and the courage to be true to it. Ed.
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly lo'ed the lasses O. Burns.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death. Ruskin.
The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in 25 these days pass for a divine one; the word "inspiration" still lingers, but only in the shape of a poetic figure, from which the once earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has vanished without return. Carlyle.