Wisest Quotations

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

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

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.

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

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

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?

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

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

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

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

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

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.

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

There is a great deal to be considered in starting a new merchant account, or switching from one account to another. Merchant account companies will send their representative to help you, but their advice is always slanted in their favor. Using an independent consultant is always the wisest choice.

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.

We live in the 21st century, the wisest generation yet to come, where you have the freedom to say anything you want, sue anyone and for anything, and wear a trash bag in style.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

With the high tax rates, this seems like the wisest choice. They are a strong company in their markets so that seems to be the right course to take.

To identify that is to sort of identify exactly what we think is happening. We can say generally from a football standpoint, it's something we need to have greater success at. We take ourselves out of field-goal position (by giving up sacks), we stall drives. Sacks also lose field position for us. They put us in a dysfunctional situation when we have that kind of play, but to say why is probably not the wisest thing. We don't want to give (the opposition any advantage). They watch the film and they can see and know.

The sharp escalation in gold prices over the past year, up more than 40% over the past 12 months, clearly makes gold one of the wisest investment choices of recent times.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

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

We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

Education is one of the wisest investments we can make in America's future. The aid elimination provision is unfair and heavy-handed and should be taken off the books completely.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

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

This may prove that their policy barring pre-announcement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This may prove that their policy barring preannouncement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

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

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

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.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The longer that it goes on that we need to do repairs to maintain it when we know that we're going to need a new structure that's not the wisest use of public dollars.

He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Wisest men / Have erred, and by bad women been deceived; / And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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---

The wisest have the most authority.

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.

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.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

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

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

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

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.

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