Wisest Quotes
262 quotes by 201 authors
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest…
— Francis Bacon
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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced…
— Annie Besant
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The wisest of the wise may err.
— Aeschylus
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
— Casey Affleck
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The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
— George W. Bush
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good,…
— Richard Cecil
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
— Maya Angelou
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
— Maya Angelou
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It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want…
— Bernie Siegel
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them…
— Benjamin Rush
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Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it.…
— Maya Angelou
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
— Marcel Proust
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No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
— Joseph Hall
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
— Michel de Montaigne
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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