Wisest Man Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only… — Charles Kingsley
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions. — Umar
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. — Tryon Edwards
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong. — Sophocles
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest… — Lord Chesterfield
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer. — Jacob Abbott
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing… — James Russell Lowell
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to… — Ayn Rand
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. — Taylor Caldwell
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. — Zoroaster
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
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 philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. — William Godwin
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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