„I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.“

— Sophia Loren

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„Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess wisdom which I find wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing… as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. And so I go on my way, obedient to the god, and make inquisition into anyone, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and this occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.“
— Socrates
„I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.“
— Paul of Tarsus
„No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Angry people are not always wise.“
— Jane Austen
„I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.“
— Margaret Mead