Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless. — Plato 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
“The most beautiful ape is ugly compared to the human race, so, the wisest of men is an ape compared with God,… — Herakleitos of Ephesos Copy Share Image
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.” — Brandon Sanderson 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
“Young Bob Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth . . . were cutting up in the office, and Lincoln reproved them. Bob replied by… — Emanuel Hertz Copy Share Image
“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something… — Gene Edwards Copy Share Image
“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles… — Christopher Marlowe 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
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 facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than… — Leo Strauss 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
“What could be the meaning of this—that he who knew nothing, and knew that he knew nothing, should be declared by the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which… — Gene Edwards Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking… — Euripides 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
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