Wisdom Quotes

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Lost Time is never found again.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Money should be used to help others.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.