Wisest Quotes

262 Wisest quotes by 197 unique authors

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,… — Leo Tolstoy
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides
Wisest is she who knows she does not know. — Jostein Gaarder
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign… — Daniel Webster
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. — Dante Alighieri
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object… — Jane Austen
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never… — Cornelia Funke
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in… — Karl Popper
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh… — Homer
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This… — Mary Oliver
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been… — Thurgood Marshall
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the… — Thomas Brooks
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
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless… — Michael Jackson
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now,… — Thomas Carlyle
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean… — Karen Marie Moning
To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step… — Deepak Chopra
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. — Leo Tolstoy
And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the… — John Flanagan
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to — J.R.R. Tolkien

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