Quotes About Wisdom

Patience is the food of understanding.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came before Did not forget you. Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

Saying of the Prophet Monkishness No monkery in Islam.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * *

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Humility has to precede instruction.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Dicho del Profeta Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN RUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.