Wisest Man Quotes

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

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.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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

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.

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

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

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

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.