Wisest Quotes

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

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

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

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

The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

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

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

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

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

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

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

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The wisest of the wise may err.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

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

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

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

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

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

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.

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

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.

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.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.