In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the… — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today.… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer. — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless. — Plato Copy Share Image
“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image