Wisest Quotes

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?

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.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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

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.

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

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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

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

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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

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.

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.

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