Quotes with wisest

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• The fairest garden in her looks,
  And in her mind the wisest books.

  The Garden, i; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  British poet (1340 - 1400)
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• The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

  George Bancroft
  American historian (1800 - 1891)
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• The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.

  G. Emmons
   
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• The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

  Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert p. 532

  Nathanael Emmons
  American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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• The wisest have the most authority.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

  Nicholas Boileau
  French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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• The wisest of the wise may err.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

  Horace Walpole
  British writer (1717 - 1797)
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• The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
  

  George W. Bush
  American politician (1946 - )
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• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  English writer (1865 - 1946)
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• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton
  English writer (1777 - 1832)
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• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

  Pericles
   
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• What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

  Bhagavad Gita
  Indian Hindu storybook
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• Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• principles
• everywhere
• introduced
• difference
• counselors

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