Wisest Quotes · Page 5

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

— Hans Christian Andersen

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

— Herman Melville

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

— Jose Saramago

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Jacob Abbott

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

— Malcolm Forbes

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ,…

— Aphra Behn

“Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you’ve chosen the wisest thing go out and try…

— Maya Angelou

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of…

— Homer

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks,…

— Socrates

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his…

— Marianne Williamson

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a…

— Joe Biden

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of…

— John C. Maxwell

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right…

— Sri Chinmoy

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write…

— Jane Rule

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me…

— Robert Southey

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of…

— Helmut Schmidt

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!…

— Anonymous

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians…

— Anonymous

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

— Michel de Montaigne

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Vincent de Paul

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

— Robin Sharma

“The wisest as well as the most dangerous men are those who observe without speaking.”

— Jeff Wheeler

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

— Plato

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

— Sophocles

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

— Plato

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

— Anonymous

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

— George Crabbe

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Burns

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

— Anonymous