Wisest Quotes - Page 11

• Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Wisdom, Intelligence, One Love

  "Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay" edited by Charlotte Barrett, (vol. 2, p. 3), 1854.

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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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• I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

  Tamar Myers

  Optimistic, Fifty, Way

  Tamar Myers (2008). “As the World Churns”, p.82, NYLA

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• Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Doe, Tao

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• Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you feel hungry, you eat. When you feel tired, you rest. When you feel lonely, you reach out for a connection to others. In this most basic way your feelings link you with the wisest part of yourself. They tell you what you need to know at any given moment.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Spiritual, Lonely, Tired

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• Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Wisest Man

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

  Isaac Barrow

  Country, Reading, Book

  Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”

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• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Yesterday, Race, Times Like These

  Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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• Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

  Samuel Louis Gilmore

  Life, Teacher, Listening

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Political, Ignorant

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 2: "The Creative Power of a Free Civilization", 1960.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Meditation, Divine

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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• Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Theory

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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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• This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Attention, Firsts

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Neighbor

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Rain, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.557, Macmillan

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