Quotes About Wisdom

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

You can spend your life looking for knowledge while all along it was right in front of you.

he couldn't see the wisdom of it from the point of view of anyone who wanted to live. He self-corrected his thoughts – anyone who was desperate to live. He wanted to live, of course he did, but at this precise moment he was happy enough to gamble his life for a bit of certainty. He had a lot to lose, but it was all in the future, not the present, and that potential loss wasn't tangible enough to trouble him; he'd already lost too much that was real.

I reminded myself to be smarter. I was smart. I just had a thick layer of stupid that had settled on top of me. But I was still wild when I needed to be. I'd get smarter.

We were never young.

you go ahead and be stupid while I enjoy all the merits of your stupidity!

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

Nine months spent in the womb of your mother have transformed a drop of water into 'you' – hearing, seeing and thinking. Can you imagine what a lifetime spent with the Qur'?n – seeking, hearing, seeing, thinking, striving – can do for you?

The Prophet Muhammad has said: 'Whoever Allah wishes good for, He bestows upon him a deep understanding of the Din.' (Bukhari, Muslim.)

little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!