“The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.”
Source: Poems & Songs
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Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
Source: The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
“Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.”
Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild
“Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Source: The Republic
“It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Need to be Loved
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”
Source: The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”
Source: The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny
“The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.”
“A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.”
“The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.”