Wisdom Quotes
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.
Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word My choicest hours Are the hours I spend with You - O God, I can't live in this world Without remembering You
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
