Wisest Quotes

262 Wisest quotes by 197 unique authors

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God. — Rick Warren
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. — Leonardo da Vinci
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true,… — Philip K. Dick
The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to… — Philip K. Dick
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking. — Lela Rose
I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress… — Jayma Mays
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I… — Socrates
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily… — Andre Gide
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest. — William Shakespeare
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as… — Sarah Orne Jewett
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that… — Norman Vincent Peale
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and… — Henry Fielding
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest;… — Euripides

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