Best Quotes

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

War is at its best barbarism.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The best proof of love is trust.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.