Quotes About Wisdom

Muchas cosas que son llamadas "secretos" son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.

The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough.

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel. (Gulistan)

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep.

P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre? R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

You may not appreciate Sufism at first, but once you do you will appreciate it until the end of your days.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Teaching One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.