For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
The wisest of the wise may err.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.