T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.”
“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
“The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.”
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“The wisest among us is a fool in some things.”
“The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.”
“The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.”
“The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.”
“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”
“The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
“The wisest decisions are made by those closest to the problem — regardless of their seniority.”
“The wisest fool in Christendom.”
“The wisest have the most authority.”
“The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.”
“The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.”
“The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.”
“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.”
“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”
“The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“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.”
“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.”
“The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.”
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”
“The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
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“The wisest man knows he know nothing.”
“The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.”
“The wisest man may be a blind father.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.”
Source: Poems & Songs
“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---”
Source: The Will to Power
“The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that's when they stop arguing.”
“The wisest men are wise to the full in death.”
Source: John Ruskin's Works
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“The wisest men in the world do not betray their wives, for they know that they value their intelligence by their side.”
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!”
“The wisest of all counsellors is the wise God.”
“The wisest of all things is to forsake the evil of wrongdoing.”
“The wisest of the wise may err.”
“The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.”
“The wisest people are often the simplest.”
“The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.”
Source: Vintage PKD
“The wisest person in the world is the one who is indifferent to praise and criticism.”
“The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.”
“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.”
“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”
“The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.”
“The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.”
“The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.”