Top 1200 Wisest Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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

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

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

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

When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

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

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

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

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

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

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

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

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

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

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

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

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

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

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

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

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

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

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

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

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

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

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

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

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

I've beaten some of the wisest, most opportunistic and powerful women, and I will prove to Asuka that she is not unstoppable.

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

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

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

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

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

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

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

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

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

One of President Reagan's first and wisest initiatives was to effectively shutdown the anti-trust division of the Justice Department.