Quotes About Wisdom

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.