Wisest Quotes

The wisest have the most authority.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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

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.

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

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.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

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.

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.

The wisest of the wise may err.