“It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“No man is the wiser for his learning.”

“Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.”

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”

“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”