Top 100 The Wisest Quotes
#2. Fleury had succeeded (but only with difficulty) in overcoming certain qualms as to whether selling one's life as dearly as possible, or even putting it up for sale at all, was, in fact, the wisest course
J.G. Farrell
#3. 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
#4. The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
#6. Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
Pericles
#7. The wisest has nothing, knows nothing, but loves everything.
Debasish Mridha
#8. All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.
Edwin A. Abbott
#14. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.
O. Henry
#16. 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
#18. He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world ...
Charles Templeton
#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. I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - "I'm sorry.
Mita Jain
#21. By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
James Redfield
#22. Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Michel De Montaigne
#23. The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#24. Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you' said the wisest of the wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops of oil on the spoon
Paulo Coelho
#25. Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.
Max Anders
#26. I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.
Tamar Myers
#27. What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
Lew Wallace
#28. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
Joseph Hall
#29. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. 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
#31. Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
#33. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
#35. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
#36. 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 in life is a joke.
Jane Austen
#37. The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
William Godwin
#38. The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
John Ruskin
#40. Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk
#41. To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
Thomas Carlyle
#42. 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 to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
James Russell Lowell
#43. When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.
Dani Shapiro
#44. You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.
Aleksandr Voinov
#46. The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides
#48. Organize your life the way God wants it to be. When you pray, ask God for counsel on matters and you will get the wisest advice directly from heaven
Sunday Adelaja
#49. I tried to stay in the clear parts of the road, avoiding horse dung. Perhaps going barefoot had not been the wisest choice.
Elizabeth Vaughan
#50. 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 in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#51. Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Thales
#52. Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
#53. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
Isaac Barrow
#54. I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
Michel De Montaigne
#55. The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
Umar
#56. Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
Christine De Pizan
#58. We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#59. Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
Sarada Devi
#60. Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
Maya Angelou
#61. And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#62. Some people - well, a lot of people, really - never own their own pain. Others let it run their whole lives. You're trying to use yours as fuel. I'd say that's the wisest of the three options.
Seth Mullins
#63. No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune ... There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#64. Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#65. And this,' said she, 'is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! The happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!
Jane Austen
#66. Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
Charles Lamb
#67. Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.
Ken Dereste Dorcely
#68. 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 the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
Charles Kingsley
#69. Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left - that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.
Herman Melville
#70. This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
Mary Oliver
#71. It's just hard now because ... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away. I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.
Jane O'Connor
#72. There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
#73. What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.
Brandon Sanderson
#74. I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
Maya Angelou
#75. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. The wisest man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.
Robin Hobb
#77. The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
Plato
#79. On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe Biden
#80. Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.
Michael Gurian
#81. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
Henry David Thoreau
#82. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.
Donna Lynn Hope
#83. The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
Sophocles
#85. The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
Erich Maria Remarque
#86. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
David Mitchell
#87. There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#89. I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. Building a temple atop a minehead, when the local tulpas haunted the dangerous galleries and tunnels of Below, had not been the wisest judgment ever made. I tried to remember if this had been my idea. Somehow I had the feeling that it was.
Jay Lake
#91. Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
Ovid
#92. It's never easy moving forward in life. But if you want to prosper & enjoy life ... keep moving ahead on that road. Forward progress is always the wisest choice anyone can make.
Timothy Pina
#94. The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Nathanael Emmons
#95. Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out ... and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
Laura Munson
#96. 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
#97. Letters tell the truths a person will not speak. They contain the deepest of feelings, the wisest of stories. Letters are powerful. They contain messages of hope, love, change.
Juliet Marillier
#98. Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.
Robin Sharma
