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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
— John Heywood
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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.
— Frank Arthur Swinnerton
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
— Herman Melville
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The wisest man has something yet to learn.
— George Santayana
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow — Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
— John Ruskin
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right.
— Hans Christian Andersen
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
— Hans Christian Andersen
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
— William Godwin
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Bryant H. McGill
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
— Bertrand Russell
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
— Taylor Caldwell
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
— Nathanael Emmons
The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
— Lajos Kossuth
Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
— Robertson Davies
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The wisest man may be a blind father.
— Jules Verne
The wisest man knows he know nothing.
— A. Lee Martinez