The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
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.
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
The wisest man knows he know nothing.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
