Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 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
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You may have access to the best information; you may build up the most positive attitude but, to get the wisest experience,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on… — Sinclair Lewis 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
Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain… — John Flanagan 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
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of… — Dani Shapiro 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
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given… — Thomas Dreier 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
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are… — Christoph Martin Wieland 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
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived... — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
“Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.” — Yeats 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
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it -… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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