“The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. — Plato Copy Share Image
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you… — Cheryl Richardson 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
[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I,… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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