Top 100 Wisest Quotes
#1. The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
Woodrow Wilson
#2. Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.
Neal Shusterman
#3. 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
#4. Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Thales
#5. 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
#6. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
Isaac Barrow
#7. When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.
Martin Luther
#9. Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in fact in motion all the time, doing nothing is not really doing nothing, it's allowing things to mover at their own pace
Niall Williams
#10. I would have you learn this great fact: that a life of doing right is the wisest life there is. 12 If you live that kind of life, you'll not limp or stumble as you run. 13 Carry out my instructions; don't forget them, for they will lead you to real living.
Anonymous
#11. The wisest as well as the most dangerous men are those who observe without speaking.
Jeff Wheeler
#12. The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Leo Strauss
#13. I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
Michel De Montaigne
#14. The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
Umar
#15. Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
Lajos Kossuth
#16. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
#17. 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
#18. Listen until you're the smartest.
Learn until you're the wisest.
Live until you're the merriest.
Love until you're the kindest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.
John Flanagan
#20. Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
Robert B. Leighton
#22. The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.
Philip K. Dick
#23. It doesn't work that way. Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another. Those might be the wisest words I've ever heard.
Ann Aguirre
#24. Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them." Marion
G.A. Henty
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.
Kevin DeYoung
#28. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl
#29. The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
George Carlin
#30. Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
Sarada Devi
#31. 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
#33. Duty is the best and wisest of all teachers.
Alan Bradley
#34. I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf ... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
#37. 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
#38. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.
Charles Caleb Colton
#40. 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
#41. It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
Confucius
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. the wisest of us must be beguiled in this way sometimes, and must think both better and worse of people than they deserve. Nature
George Eliot
#45. Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#46. The wisest have the most authority
Plato
#47. The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
Frank Arthur Swinnerton
#48. Socrates ... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
John Milton
#49. The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.
Vincent De Paul
#50. What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
Edmund Burke
#52. 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
#53. He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest [Yogi as well as the wisest man] (note 2).
Swami Vivekananda
#54. Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
Karen Salmansohn
#55. 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
#56. Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor
#57. Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
R. Scott Bakker
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. He exuded wisdom-even the wisest ... were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.
Aprilynne Pike
#62. A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
Jakob Bohme
#63. Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.
Jeremy Corbyn
#64. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil
#65. The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.
Fred M. Vinson
#66. Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
Mary Oliver
#67. 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
#68. You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#70. Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections ... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney
#71. She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
Georgette Heyer
#72. But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
Catherynne M Valente
#73. Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill
#75. Prodigies! Geniuses! Artists! The lumer-lumpen are some of the most sensitive, the most brilliant, the wisest creatures on the earth or inside of it. There is more wisdom in the head of a lumpen than you will find in all the libraries of the world ... If only they could speak ...
Lauren Oliver
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Casey Affleck
#81. Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.
Margaret Fuller
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
Kurt Vonnegut
#85. For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
Ihara Saikaku
#86. Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
Lord Chesterfield
#87. Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk
William Butler Yeats
#88. The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
Norman Vincent Peale
#89. I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. 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
#91. A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men.
John August
#92. Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.
John Ruskin
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is...to abide solely by the Word of God in all simplicity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#97. 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
#98. Is there such a thing as natural modesty?
Wisest is she who knows she does not know ...
True insight comes from within.
He who knows what is right will do right.
Jostein Gaarder
#99. The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.
Ron McMillan
#100. 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
