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.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
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---
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.
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
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 men are wise to the full in death.
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business. . . then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
The wisest man knows he know nothing.
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.
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
