Quotes About Wisdom

I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.

i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right

When you are moving toward an objective, said Petrus, it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length.

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar.

Once someone asked me, What do you want to be your epitaph? So I said, Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

sometimes it's better to leave things as they are.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.