Atheism Quote by Walter Bagehot

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

— Orson Scott Card

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

— Samuel Richardson

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world…

— Plato

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

— Seneca the Younger

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

— Maimonides

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

— Mohlatsane Qelemotse

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

— Baltasar Gracian

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if…

— W.K. Marriott

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort