Wisest Quotes

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.

The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

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.

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

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.

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.

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

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

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

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.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

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.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

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.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!

The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.