It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who… — Martin Luther 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
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
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper… — Ovid Copy Share Image
No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . .… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks… — Socrates Copy Share Image
This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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