Top 25 Wisest Man Quotes of 37 - Page 2

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Men, Wisest Man, Wisest

John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).”, p.54

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Wisest Man, Would Be

Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.225, Vintage

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion, Men, Wisest Man

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

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”

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

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”

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Learning, Men, Wisest Man

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

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Errors, Wisest Man

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.61