“Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.”
William Carlos Williams
“Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking”
Carl Gustav Jung
“An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men”
Charles Darwin
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
William Blake
“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish”
Friedrich August Hayek
“Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
John Maynard Keynes
“It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary”
Philippe Quinault