Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens .… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't… — Jayma Mays Copy Share Image
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image