Wisest Man Quotes

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

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

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools,
and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

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

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

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

If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.