Top 100 Greatest Wisdom Quotes
#1. But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.
Paulo Coelho
#2. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.
Lao-Tzu
#3. Perhaps humility is the greatest wisdom of all.
James Rozoff
#5. She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.
Michael Oehley
#7. The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.
Marty Rubin
#8. The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Louise Erdrich
#9. The masters were said to be profound
because they show the greatest wisdom
when comfortable
in Life's mysterious
and unknown depths
Lao-Tzu
#11. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.
Philip Pullman
#12. Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.
Shannon L. Alder
#13. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.
John Steinbeck
#14. The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort.
Irvin D. Yalom
#15. It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
Carl Jung
#17. If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
#22. But the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
Paulo Coelho
#23. Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.
Eliphas Levi
#24. To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#25. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#27. The greatest source of rich knowledge and wisdom is found in the Bible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.
James Hervey
#29. Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It's no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.
Cristen Rodgers
#30. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
#33. The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.
Nirmala Srivastava
#34. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.
C. JoyBell C.
#35. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#36. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#37. In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti
#38. Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
Juvenal
#41. If anyone hurts you, love him; it is the greatest revenge.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Fear is the greatest enemy of humanity, it paralyses tons and tons of people around the globe.
Euginia Herlihy
#43. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
#45. The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Daniel Defoe
#47. The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#48. Love is the greatest ornament in your heart;
wisdom is the greatest ornament in your mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
Pythagoras
#54. Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.
Nirmala Srivastava
#55. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
#57. Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.
Andy Stanley
#58. In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis
#59. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#60. By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
#61. Sacred meditation is greatest medicine for the body, soul and spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
Dalai Lama
#66. The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.
Forrest Curran
#68. Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
Epicurus
#69. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
#70. Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#72. It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.
Robyn Davidson
#73. When chasing success; Your greatest asset is not what you get from it but who you become because of it.
Nikki Rowe
#74. Love is the greatest gift that you can give to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Acknowledge the present moment. It is the greatest present in your life.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
Carl Sagan
#78. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
#81. The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness ...
Brandi L. Bates
#83. Kindness is the greatest gift for the humanity. Nothing is more important than to be kind to each other.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Kindness is the greatest love,
it is the healing touch,
it is the light of our soul,
it is a message from the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#85. This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
Marion Woodman
#86. Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.
Marcel Proust
#88. the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#89. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#91. Life has no destination; it is the greatest journey with the greatest intention.
Debasish Mridha
#92. The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.
Osman Welela
#93. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#95. To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.
Sorin Cerin
#96. Life is for happiness, and joy and service to the humanity gives you greatest joy.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.
Euginia Herlihy
#98. Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.
Caleb Ricketts
#99. The greatest joy of life is not on achieving but in serving, loving, and giving.
Debasish Mridha
