Quotes About Wisdom

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Haste is from the Devil.

FIVE KINDS OF FOLLY The Sages have said that five things are signs of foolishness: First, seeking one's own good while harming others; Second, looking for the yield of the last days without discipline and service; Third, loving women harshly and brashly; Fourth, seeking to learn the refinements of science in comfort and ease; Fifth, expecting friendship without oneself being reliable and trustworthy. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Stages First I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong. What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone. (Ardabili)

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

The Sufi teacher's mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.

The answer to a fool is silence. (Proverb)