Quotes on Greatest Wisdom

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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 merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.