Best Wisest Thoughts
262 Wisest quotes by 197 unique authors
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be.…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
— William Godwin
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
— Confucius
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
— Roald Dahl
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a…
— Robertson Davies
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing…
— Diogenes
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
— Charles William Eliot
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
— Euripides
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
— Quintilian
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father,…
— Salman Rushdie
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The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone…
— Jonathan Sacks
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
— George Santayana
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
— Jose Saramago
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
— Robert W. Service
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
— William Shakespeare
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that…
— Gene Simmons
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Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest,…
— Layne Staley
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
— Horace Walpole
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