it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.
Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the tiller. Halt glanced up as they approached, caught a look from Gilan and had a pretty good idea what they had been talking about. "Where have you two been?" he asked, his tone light. admiring the view," Gilan told him. "Thought you might need a hand from the two wisest heads on board.
Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.
It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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.
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
All are sure in their days except the most wise. . . He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
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.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.