So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.James 5:2 KJV
The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.Ecclesiastes 9:17 NIV
Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.Ecclesiastes 9:15 NIV