Wisdom Quotes

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

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.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.