Top 100 Wisest Quotes
#1. The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Tacitus
#2. A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
Jacob Abbott
#4. I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short time. They become wise beyond their years.
Laura Lane
#5. The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. 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
#7. The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.
James Anthony Froude
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
#11. My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
Garry Kasparov
#12. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
#14. Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#15. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
#17. Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart
Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.
Sophocles
#18. You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend
Neil Gaiman
#20. In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
Pericles
#22. It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
James Fenimore Cooper
#23. In short, dozens of conflicting, truncated impressions were already teasing to be understood, but the wisest course seemed to me to keep them to myself so long as I didn't begin to know what they added up to.
Philip Roth
#24. The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
Charles Hodge
#25. It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.
Jacob Abbot
#26. In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.
George R R Martin
#29. What is this?" demanded the High Priestess from the doorway.
So here she was, back in the Hall of Judgment, facing a circle of priestesses.
Again? said Juliet. You do not have the wisest habits.
At least I haven't died yet, said Runajo.
Rosamund Hodge
#30. 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.
#31. The wisest has nothing, knows nothing, but loves everything.
Debasish Mridha
#32. One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
Herman Melville
#33. 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
#34. The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
Lela Rose
#35. I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.
Bill Cosby
#39. The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.
Bob Sorge
#41. The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.
Umar
#42. To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#43. Launching an innovative premium jelly bouillon into a highly competitive market at the height of austerity, for example, might not have been thought the wisest move. Yet with people eating out less, the demand for high-quality convenience products that enable people to cook at home has grown. As
Jaideep Prabhu, Paul Polman, The Economist Navi Radjou
#44. It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
George Saintsbury
#45. Generalissimo Stalin directed every move ... made every decision ... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived ...
Georgy Zhukov
#46. The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
John Heywood
#47. Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
George Sand
#49. An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.
Christie Watson
#50. For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.
John Armstrong
#51. 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
#52. If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present ... gratefully.
Maya Angelou
#53. Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
Charles Caleb Colton
#55. The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
Heraclitus
#56. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C.S. Lewis
#57. That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.
Gore Vidal
#60. 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
#62. Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.
Billy Graham
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
George W. Bush
#67. The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
Pico Iyer
#69. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato
#70. Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.
Rick Warren
#71. In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
Marcel Proust
#72. 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
#73. Sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
John Milton
#76. It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#77. 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
#78. Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution - A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#79. It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
Paramahansa Yogananda
#80. If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..
Munia Khan
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - "I'm sorry.
Mita Jain
#85. There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Aristotle.
#86. The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.
Milton Friedman
#87. 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
#88. Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Michel De Montaigne
#89. Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.
Pericles
#90. The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#91. It's not the wisest thing - love - but when it happens, there's not a lot you can do to stop it. Sometimes you just have to soldier on through.
Brenna Yovanoff
#92. The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.
Ellen J. Barrier
#93. 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
#94. You know, bud, I don't know you from Adam, but that's my baby sister you're hanging on to. So I'm thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
Orison Swett Marden
#96. 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
#97. But really, and upon my honour, I will try to do what I think to be wisest; and now, I hope you are satisfied.
Jane Austen
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
James Gleick
