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Quotes About Wisdom

You can't always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.
~ Auliq Ice
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
~ Idries Shah
When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
~ Idries Shah
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
~ Idries Shah
Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.
~ Idries Shah
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
~ Idries Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
~ Idries Shah
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
~ Idries Shah
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
~ Idries Shah, Darkest England
I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
~ Tim Minchin
Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.
~ Debasish Mridha
Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions.
~ Debasish Mridha
To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Wisdom comes from introspection.
~ Debasish Mridha