Wisest Quotes
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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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.
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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.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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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.
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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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.
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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.
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.
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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.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
