Wisest Quotes

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

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

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.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

The wisest of the wise may err.

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.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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.

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

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

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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?

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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.

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.

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.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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

The wisest have the most authority.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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

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.

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.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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