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Wisest Man Quotes

George Santayana quote: "The wisest man has something yet to learn."
The wisest man has something yet to learn. George Santayana
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
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool? it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told. Homer
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. John Steinbeck
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. George Carlin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for..."
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Godwin quote: "The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly..."
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. William Godwin
Bryant H. McGill quote: "Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than..."
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Bryant H. McGill
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the..."
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
Socrates quote: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is..."
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
Jose Saramago quote: "The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or..."
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. Jose Saramago
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depths of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. Diogenes
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him. Thomas Carlyle
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

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