Top 363 Wisest Quotes & Sayings

The wisest men follow their own direction.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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

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

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.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

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

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

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

The wisest have the most authority.

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

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

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

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

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

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

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

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

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

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?

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

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

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

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

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.