(20 quotes found)
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
Confucius
““…when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions…when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.””
C.S. Lewis
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.”
Socrates
“The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.”
Richard R. Grant
“The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.”
“The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.”
Pindar
“Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.”
Lord Byron
