I Am The Wisest Man Quotes

#1. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

#2. 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; these are best.

Euripides

#3. The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men
as well as his great moments of grand harmony
a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. The fear of falling is the source of many a folly. It is a disaster. I suppose the wisest thing now is to live it over again, meditate upon it and be edified. It is thus that man distinguishes himself from the ape and rises, from discovery to discovery, towards the light.

Samuel Beckett

#6. The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has ... . Man is called a baby by God, even as a child by a man ... . The wisest man is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man.

Bertrand Russell

#7. The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Jose Saramago

#8. Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Tryon Edwards

#9. This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

John Steinbeck

#10. There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle.

#11. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

#12. The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

William Godwin

#13. The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Hans Christian Andersen

#14. The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

John Ruskin

#15. Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right.

Hans Christian Andersen

#16. The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#17. The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Robert Burns

#18. Not to mention that I have finally
arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over the
loss of one beautiful brown-eyed young man is indeed to promptly invite another one into her
bed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. 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

#20. BEAR WAS DEAD. That sweet and kindly man, the wisest I had ever known, the one I considered friend, teacher, and even father, was gone. Would

Avi

#21. Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#22. I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

Helmut Schmidt

#23. 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

#24. The wisest man may be a blind father.

Jules Verne

#25. The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#26. 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

#27. The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

John Heywood

#28. Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#29. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is
so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Herman Melville

#32. Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#33. Socrates may have thought himself to be the wisest in Athens, but King Solomon was the wisest in the world. With all his philosophy Socrates died a poor man, and with all his wisdom King Solomon died a rich man.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Jacob Abbott