Wisest Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

  Greg McKeown

  Mean, Order, Energy

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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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• In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

  Mardy Grothe

  Passion, Roles, Affair

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• [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Inspire, Vices

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

  Jonas Salk

  Survival, Favors, Evolution

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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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• 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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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Respect

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Age

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• I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Hands, Forever, Unions

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• Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Loving Life, Thoughtful

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• It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

  Thomas Brooks

  Distance, Fall, Sins Not

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• Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Nice, House

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

  George Saintsbury

  Beauty, Drinking, Race

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Self, Brain

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• There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Wise, Purpose, Elbows

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332

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