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

  Robert Burns

  Life, Men, Saws

  Robert Burns (1860). “Poems & Songs”, p.117

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

  Umar

  Inspiring, Men, Action

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• 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

  Nature, Children, Ocean

  Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66

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• If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

  David Hilbert

  Stupid, Men, Astrology

  "Comic Sections". Book by Desmond MacHale, 1993.

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• When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Clever, Men

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• The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Wisest

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Reeve's Tale' l. 4054

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Nature and the Method of Nature”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Order, Desire

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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, Practice

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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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• Even the wisest man grows tense
  With some sort of violence
  Before he can accomplish fate,
  Know his work or choose his mate.
  
  Poet and sculptor, do the work,
  Nor let the modish painter shirk

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Art, Fate

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, People, Wiser

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• 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.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Self

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

  Jacob Abbott

  Children, Men, Answers

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• The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Simple, Men

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• All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Taken, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.161, Penguin

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• Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

  Michael Gurian

  Writing, Men, Emotional

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• 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

  Wise, Kings, Winning

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.85, Penguin

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• 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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