Zitat des Tages über Weisesten / Wisest:
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
The wisest have the most authority.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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?
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
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.
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.
The wisest of the wise may err.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
