Quotes on Wisest Man

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

[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.

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

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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---

No man was ever wise by chance.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.