Wisest man Quotes

“The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.”

“The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.”

“Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.”

“The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.”

“Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.”

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”