A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. — Zoroaster
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins. — John Steinbeck
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. — George Carlin
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. — Diogenes
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. — Christine de Pizan
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. — Leo Tolstoy
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. — Taylor Caldwell
What Is The Wisest Quotes
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow
Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness. — Deepak Chopra
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God. — Phillips Brooks
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men. — Bhagavad Gita
Oh, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
The wisest and the best feel urgent need
Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas!
With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power? — William Cowper
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. — Walter Savage Landor
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. — Theodore Roosevelt
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
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick
Smart Man Wise Man Quotes
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. — Jack Ma
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. — Frank M. Garafola
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure. — Charles Spurgeon
The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. — William Shakespeare
What Are Wise Quotes
You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour
Wise Man Quotes
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. — Hippocrates
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. — Plato
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. — Proverbs
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wise Guy Quotes
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. — Joan Crawford
Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back — Buddhadasa
Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000. — Calvin Ayre
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? — Robert Cormier
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. — William Arthur Ward
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy. — Grenville Kleiser
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor. — Steve Buscemi
When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great. — Don Rickles
In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys. — Michael Steinhardt
The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it. — Daniel Amen
Wise Person Quotes
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss. — Adi Shankara
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. — Proverbs
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. — Lao Tzu
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. — Dale Carnegie
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
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
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. — Huldrych Zwingli
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. — Abraham Maslow
Wise People Quotes
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. — Bill Nye
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. — Albert Hofmann
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi. — Konrad Lorenz
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. — Joseph Addison
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
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer. — Jacob Abbott
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong. — Sophocles
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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. — Robert A. Heinlein
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. — Karen Marie Moning
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. — Tryon Edwards
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean. — Charles Kingsley
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. — Aristotle
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Charles Caleb Colton
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers. — Leo Strauss
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest. — Margaret Fuller
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O. — Robert Burns
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
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. — Nathanael Emmons
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
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. — Nicholas Boileau
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Bryant H. McGill
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