Wisest Man Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

  John Heywood

  Men, Wisest

  John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).”, p.54

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• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Humility

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

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Learning, Men, May

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• Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Country

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Inspire

  "Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

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• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Men, Stressed

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

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, People, Wiser

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