Wisest Quotes
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Aristotle
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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.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.
Frederick M. Vinson
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
Heraclitus
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
William Godwin
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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Plutarch
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
Socrates
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The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
Socrates
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Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.
G.A. Henty
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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
John Milton
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
William Shakespeare
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
O. Henry
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
Plato
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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
William Wordsworth
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
Plato
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All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
Michael Faraday
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante Alighieri
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
Confucius
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Robert W. Service