#wisest

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ↗

— Pindar

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time. ↗

— Pericles

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ↗

— Euripides

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