Wisest Quotes - Page 15

• Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Truth, Healing, Men

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• The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Fear Allah, Sustenance

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• Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Fear, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

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• I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Real, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press

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• Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

  Rick Warren

  Moments

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• Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

  Maya Angelou

  Would Be, Looks, Courses

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• It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wise, Mistake, Said

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