Top 1200 Greatest Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

We have the greatest Hall of all the Halls. And to be able to join these men, on this stage, in football heaven is the greatest day of my life.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore acknowledges himself to be a zealous follower of truth, of happiness, of wisdom, of science, or even of faith, must of necessity make himself a lover of books.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.

?"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.