Top Wisest Quotes
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
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.
Walter Savage Landor
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson 
78% of people like this quote
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
James K. Polk
70% of people like this quote
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
65% of people like this quote
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.
Walter Savage Landor
58% of people like this quote
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer
56% of people like this quote
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