Top Wisest Quotes
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton 
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
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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
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