Quotes of Wisest - somelinesforyou

“ The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I would have you learn this great fact: That a life of doing right is the wisest life there is. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. ”

- George Earle Buckle

“ It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to "meddle not". ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ”

- Pindar

“ Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. ”

- Confucius

“ Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. ”

- Pindar

“ The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But He that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest. ”

- G. Emmons

“ The wisest have the most authority. ”

- Plato

“ The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. ”

- Nicolas Boileau

“ The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. ”

- Richard R. Grant

“ The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Time is the wisest of all counselors. ”

- Plutarch

“ What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. ”

- Aristotle

“ Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. ”

- Pericles

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ”

- George Santayana

“ When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ”

- Quintilian

“ It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. ”

- Confucius Analects

“ There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ”

- C. C. Colton

“ He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so. ”

- C. C. Colton
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