Top 100 Wise Best Quotes
#1. It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
Michael Crapo
#2. You may have access to the best information; you may build up the most positive attitude but, to get the wisest experience, your hands and legs must work!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
Alexander Pope
#4. A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways in which scientists have tried to analyze the world ... THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HISTORY THAT HAS YET BEEN WRITTEN.
Marston Bates
#5. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
E.M. Delafield
#6. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.
Isaac Asimov
#7. The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.
Thomas Ligotti
#8. I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
Aphra Behn
#9. He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
Charles Grandison Finney
#10. The best part of such noble liquor, No less than gold and jewelry, By preference dwells in night and gloom. The wise man searches tirelessly; 5200 To see by daylight, that's child's play, But where it's dark, there mysteries have their home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.
Charlotte Mason
#13. Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#14. One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
Bee Wilson
#15. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Hans F. Sennholz
#16. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
#17. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#18. Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#19. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
Lee Child
#20. A WISE PHYSICIAN SAID:
"THE BEST MEDECINE FOR HUMAN IS LOVE"
someone asked:
What if it doesn't work?
He Smiled and Answered..
"INCREASE THE DOSE"
(c)
Anonymous
#21. Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.
Glenn Hoddle
#22. Know who you are, then you can know where you can be! Choose your environment wisely; but be sure you know your dreams at first! When your dream seeds fall onto the soil with the best environmental factor, you will have a bumper harvest!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#24. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#26. Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
#28. God's way must be the best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will be truly wise.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
Gordon Lightfoot
#31. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
#32. And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.
Nicki Chapman
#36. The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
Norman Lear
#37. Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. Wise decisions have not given us this position of freedom," N7 said. "Wild, nearly insane decisions have proven best so far. Perhaps we should stick to what works.
Vaughn Heppner
#39. A Best Yes is a wise yes. The Bible reminds us, "Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life" (Prov. 19:20 NLT).
Lysa TerKeurst
#40. Today is the best day to accomplish something.
Jon Jones
#41. Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne
#42. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.
Penelope Cruz
#43. It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
#44. We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Orson Scott Card
#45. A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.
Wilferd Peterson
#47. A wise leader always sees the best in people even in difficult situations.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.
Dean Koontz
#49. The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#50. You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and value that exact part in you.
- Wise words from my best friend.
Nikki Rowe
#51. Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
Ted Danson
#52. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
C.S. Lewis
#53. THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#54. More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.
Paul Auster
#55. We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
Mary Russell Mitford
#56. In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
Hermann Hesse
#57. I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
Seneca.
#58. I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.
Hark Herald Sarmiento
#59. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it; so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
Louisa May Alcott
#60. That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.
Gemma Burgess
#61. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done ... Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.
Samuel Adams
#62. When you put on a new cloth with the same attitude, you are only changing the diet that goes into the same stomach!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#63. Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.
Charles Robert Maturin
#64. Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
James Monroe
#65. In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
Jeremy Taylor
#66. Wise, spiritual faith - the kind I'm advocating - is a commitment of trust based on solid, though incomplete, evidence that we're believing in the right things and moving in the best direction.
Mark Mittelberg
#70. The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
Wim Wenders
#72. Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.
Miguel Syjuco
#73. A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#74. I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
Kelly Ripa
#75. The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
Robin Hobb
#77. Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
Libba Bray
#78. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#79. A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. They ask what I often refer to as the best question ever: In light of my past experience, and my future hopes and dreams, what's the wise thing to do?
Andy Stanley
#81. Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.
Pema Chodron
#83. People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
Jaeda DeWalt
#84. We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.
John Krasinski
#85. If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.
Francis Quarles
#87. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
Criss Jami
#88. Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise;
Jane Austen
#89. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
RZA
#91. Do what Thou wilt! Yes, only do
What seemeth good to Thee;
Thou art so loving, wise, and true,
It must be best for me.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#92. Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.
Scott Adams
#94. I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#95. Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.
Ursula Vernon
#96. The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Aristotle.
#97. Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.
E. Mellyberry
#98. Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions.
Julie Wu
#99. Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#100. I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.
Derrick Rose
