Quotes About Wisdom

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

The Prophet supplicated that God, the Exalted, show him things in their reality, distinguished and clear: "Show me the truth as truth and give me the ability to follow it; and show me falsehood as falsehood and give me the ability to avoid it.

A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.

the Prophet laughed and said, "If you, ?Umar, went down one path, Satan would take another.

apportionment in the world. Thus, one is opposing how God meted out sustenance in concord with His wisdom. Therefore, one must oppose his own ego's desires and seek treatment for this disease with the healing force of acceptance of the divine decree and prayer on behalf of one's enemies in a way that suppresses the ego [nafs].

The felicities one is the one who learns by the tribulation of others and does not learn through his tribulation.

If one wishes not to incur the wrath of God, then one should not be wrathful or angry with people unjustly. Similarly, the Prophet said that whoever makes someone's path to knowledge easy, God will make his or her path to Paradise easy. And whoever covers the shortcomings of his brother, God will cover his shortcomings in the Hereafter. God, the All-Wise, placed this special reciprocity in this world.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chain by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. —THOMAS WATSON

Don't waste you youth by growing up !

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Those to whom man teaches little, nature like a wise and prudent mother teaches much.

Don't Listen To What People Tell You... Listen To Your Soul And Pickle Juice.

I was like some daft child who burns himself once and after that is willing to shiver in the darkness rather than make a fire.

Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Verstehen braucht seine Zeit. Daran solltest du immer denken.