Top 1200 Greatest Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

I want to be the greatest. The greatest that ever played, regardless of position or era.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.

Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.

I don't have the need to be the greatest of all-time anymore, 'cause I'm just a speck of the greatest energy to ever exist.

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

I hope to be remembered one day as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, fighter in MMA history.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

So for me Tendulkar is the greatest but Kohli is not far behind and could well end up as the greatest.

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.