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• The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.225, Vintage

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• When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

  Martin Luther

  People, Devil, Doe

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

  George Earle Buckle

  People, Speculation, Practical Life

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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, Wisest Man

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• Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Ignorance, Men, Knowing

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.294, The Overlook Press

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

  Jacob Abbott

  Children, Men, Wisest Man

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mistake, Men, Issues

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

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• In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

  Mark Driscoll

  Wise, Husband, Book

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

  Neil MacGregor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Voice

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• In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of pain, respect, and saying you are great, etc., but not providing the basic facilities that make women able to lead the kind of life that they would like to and that men easily do.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, Pain, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attractive, Sentences, Attractiveness

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.29, David M Gross

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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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• I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Trying, Illness

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

  Darren Hardy

  Meaningful, Dream, Giving Up

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• Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Mother, Ideas

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• 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

  Self, Competition, Survival

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• He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

  Plato

  Men, Knows

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.109, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Use, American Strength

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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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, Wisest Man, Order

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• But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.

  John H. Sununu

  Ambition, Waiting, Growth

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• Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

  Jonas Salk

  Survival, Favors, Evolution

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• What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Radicalism, Kind, Conservatism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books

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• It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Life, Morning, Three

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE BLUE CASTLE (Unabridged)”, p.48, e-artnow

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• The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

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