Wisdom Quotes

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

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 true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.