Wisest Man Quotes

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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

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

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

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

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.

Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!