Wisest Quotes - Page 10

• Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Heart, Childhood

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• Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
  . . . .
  That the wisest word man reaches
  Is the humblest he can speak?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Mountain, Speak

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

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• The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Health, Mind, Body

  Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 6 July (1787)

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• 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

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.100, Routledge

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• There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

  Robert Southey

  Men, House, Physicians

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• Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

  Robert Holden

  Philosophy, Healing, Self

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• Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

  Francine Mathews

  Useless

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• The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

  Robin Sharma

  Leadership, Adversity, Faces

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.39, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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

  Reality, Men, Sight

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1955). “Ethics”, SCM Press

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• Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Survival, Needs, Over It

  "How A Video Game Could Make You A Better Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

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• The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

  Plato

  Men, Worthless

  Apology, 23b (translated by H Tredennick).

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• The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell, Things To Do, Ifs

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• An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

  Christie Watson

  Bird, Owl

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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, Wisest Man

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

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• Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

  Algernon Sidney

  Passion, Men, Perfect

  Algernon Sidney (1763). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.366

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• The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

  William Cowper Brann

  Religious, Ideas, Political

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• The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

  Lela Rose

  Mother, Advice, Cooking

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• I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.

  Jayma Mays

  Stress, Worry, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

  Andre Gide

  Reality, Worry, Would Be

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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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• The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

  Tacitus

  Men, Fame, Reluctant

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• The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

  William Shakespeare

  Cunning, Seeming

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 97

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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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• Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.

  Henry Fielding

  Fashion, Men, Law

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.664

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