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• Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Wisest Man, People

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Argument, Maxims

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• [n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Believe, Inspiration

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• The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Teacher

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• He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest person that I've ever encountered in my life or in my reading. His commitment was total and led to his own death, much to the detriment of the world.

  Charles Templeton

  Jesus, Reading, Commitment

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Government, Ideas, Firsts

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• Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

  Zoroaster

  Men, Wisest Man, Knives

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• It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

  James F. Cooper

  Names, Needs, Asks

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• It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Analects".

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• It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Bible, Believe, Book

  "Difficulties In The Bible".

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• The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Government, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love You, People, Giving

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• It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Beauty, Love You

  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

  Benjamin Rush

  Jesus, Patriotic, Son

  "A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life Or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush".

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• Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

  Marcel Proust

  Mistake, Errors, Doctors

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes way”, Vintage Classics

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• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, May, Wells

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.161

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• The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Regret, Passion

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.116

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Nature and the Method of Nature”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Incense, Fool, Praise

  Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.205

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• King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Writing, Thinking, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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