Quotes About Wisdom

To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Teaching: One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer. Saying of the Prophet

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?