Wisest Quotes - Page 14

• In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Judgment, Human Condition

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• Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Thoughtful

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

  George Sand

  Ice, Darkness, World

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  John Tillotson

  Greatness, Men, Wisest Man

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• The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Men, Thinking, Conceit

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.135

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• I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Allies, British

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• A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Poetry, Virtue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Art, Believe, People

  Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31

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• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Army, Common Sense, Navy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Numbers, Understanding

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• Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Ambition, Pride, Excess

  Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard”, p.239

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• The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Style, Oratory

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Men, Wisest Man, People

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

  "Pome by Alfred Lord Tennyson". Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1886.

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• The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Children, Doctors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays - First Series”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Law, Political

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.140, Ravenio Books

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• There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Wise, Purpose, Elbows

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332

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• One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.16

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• The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

  George Bancroft

  Public Speaking, Critics, Wiser

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417

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• it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Talking, Very Wise, Persons

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.806, Xist Publishing

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• One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

  Herman Melville

  Wisdom, Morning, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, p.26, Herman Melville

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• Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Gun, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

  Jakob Bohme

  Self, Shepherds, Dominion

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• Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Excellence

  Phaedo 118a

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