The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

— Louise Erdrich

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

— Mikis Theodorakis

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

— Paulo Coelho

“essence of Buddhism: The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept…

— Atisa

“Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.”

— Éliphas Lévi

“Just as the bird leaves no trace, no record of its flight upon the void, so human desire can gain nothing out of life.…

— Alan W. Watts

“That is what nursing has taught me above all: compassion is the greatest wisdom.”

— Tilda Shalof

“But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

“Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true…

— Lao Tzu

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments…

— Robert Henri

“She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes…

— Michael Oehley

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my…

— John Steinbeck

“Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.”

— Shannon Alder