Wisest Quotes

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Peace, May

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Men, Wise, Adversity

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

Change, Men, Stupidest

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

Wisdom, Sure, Might

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Men, Judged

The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Else, Happens, Knows

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Robert W. Service

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

Life, Good, Best

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

Happiness, Wisdom, Fool

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes

Best, Wise, Thinking

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, Wisdom, Fool

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
George W. Bush

Strength, Freedom, American

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes

Men, Science, Nothing

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

Thoughts, Second, Among

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton

Best, Fool, Greatest

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 achieve the second.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Enjoy, Two

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
Layne Staley

Life, Person, Find

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill

Fool, Greatest, May

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons

Life, Mother, Person

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

Wise, Woman, Mad

The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus

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

Men, Stupid, Together

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Great, Passion

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar

Truth, Silence, Often

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Greatest, Scholars

Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles

Time, Counselor

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