Best Most Wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.”

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Author:Leonhard Euler

“The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.”

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Author:Confucius

“As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!”

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Author:John Arbuthnot

“Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.”

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Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I only had one year of eligibility and I wasn't getting many offers from other schools. I jumped on it to make a mark. That was the most wise decision I made coming out of Oklahoma junior college.”

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Author:John Starks

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.”

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Book:Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.”

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Book:Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations

Source: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations

“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.”

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Author:John of Kronstadt

“O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.”

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Author:Nikolaj Velimirovic

“For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.”

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Book:The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI

Source: The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI