Quotes About Wisdom

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I only invoked what you already knew.

A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do