Quotes of: Wisest Keyword

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Pico Iyer

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.

Debasish Mridha

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

The Two Towers

Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution - A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

R. N. Prasher

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

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

The Deerslayer

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The Republic

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

The Mysterious Island

He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.

Spells

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

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

Lela Rose

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.

Maya Angelou

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

James K. Polk

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton