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.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

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?

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

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.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.