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Tag Name "Wisest" (194)

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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
Socrates
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Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
Jostein Gaarder
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
George Earle Buckle
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert
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The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.
Robin Sharma
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I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.
Norton Juster
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The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
Samuel Richardson
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The wisest man knows he know nothing.
A. Lee Martinez
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
Denis Diderot
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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 we went together along the country by-ways.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.
Alethea Kontis
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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
Pericles
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This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Douglas MacArthur
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The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of hands across the sea, and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night professions of eternal amity provide the nigh
Ambrose Bierce
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There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
Phillips Brooks
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I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Time is the wisest of all things that are for it brings everything to light.
Thales
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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 life.
Andre Gide
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