What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus 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
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks,… — Socrates 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
The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child… — Thomas Reid 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
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
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. — Herman Melville 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
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. — Nathanael Emmons 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