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  • Success often lies just the other side of failure.

  • 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.

    Dream   Reality   Hands  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

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

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Loss   Years   Joy  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin
  • There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

  • 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.

  • A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

    Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited
  • Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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

    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.300, Lulu.com
  • Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

    Law   Perfection   Joy  
  • 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.

    John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

    Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.66, Odyssey Editions
  • ... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

  • The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

    "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.
  • There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

    Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

    Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.72, Shambhala Publications
  • The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

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

  • The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.

  • The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

    "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.
  • It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

  • 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.

    Wise   Wisdom   Attitude  
    "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.
  • Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

    Happiness   Wise   Wisdom  
    George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社
  • The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

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