Wisest Quotes - Page 5

• Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

  George Crabbe

  Fashion, Children, Fool

  'The Library' (1808) l. 167

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Night, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

  Denis Diderot

  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  "'Ceci n'est pas un conte' ('This Is No Tale')". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Wisest Man, Hands

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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• In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

  Stefan Zweig

  Psychology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.

  Oliver Stone

  People, Looks, Earth

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• Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Views, Should Have

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book III, Preface, Sec. 1, c. 15 BC.

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• By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

  James Redfield

  Spiritual, Self, Hearing

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• All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

  Michael Faraday

  Wise, Doubt, Philosopher

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lasts, Strongest

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• The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Men, Wiser

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Andersen's Fairy Tales: The complete collection”, p.626, Hans Christian Andersen

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• The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Men, Wisest Man

  John Ruskin, John Atkinson Hobson (1899*). “John Ruskin's works”

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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. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Pride, People

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• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

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• O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

  O. Henry

  Giving, Giving And Receiving

  O. Henry (2014). “The Four Million: The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.20, First Avenue Editions

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• The wisest man knows he know nothing.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Men, Wisest Man, Knows

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• The wisest man may be a blind father.

  Jules Verne

  Father, Men, Wisest Man

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.3897, Delphi Classics

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• You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Way, Life Is, Fear God

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2015

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• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.

  Kent Nerburn

  Death, Past, Men

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