Quotes About Wisdom

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

Debe rebasarse necesariamente la corteza para descubrir, tras la apariencia, la verdadera esencia de las cosas. El envoltorio, en definitiva, no cuenta. Un precepto que vale para juzgar no sólo las palabras, sino también las cosas y los hombres.

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Ni mortal ni inmortal, ni pobre ni rico, Eros ejerce un papel de mediador, de manera que logra representar simbólicamente la condición del filósofo, siempre suspendida entre la ignorancia y la sabiduría. Situado entre los dioses (que no buscan la sabiduría por que la poseen) y los ignorantes (que no la buscan porque creen poseerla), el verdadero filósofo, amante de la sabiduría, intentará aproximarse hasta ella persiguiéndola durante toda su vida.

When one meets a university professor of shari'a, one gets the impression of a senior student who is but more widely read than the students he teaches; but when one meets a traditional alim, one gets the impression of someone who knows the actual content of the shari'a by having learned and memorized, in a word, someone with 'ilm or "knowledge.

Make Imam al-Ghazali your therapist.

An educated mind is an educated and save person

He or she that ignored wisdom and knowledge, ignored his or her deliverances

Love is not by sight but by mind

If one knows but does not act accordingly, one knows imperfectly'.

Paradox of Information wherein we can know too many things without knowing what those "things" are.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Aptal, o kadar?n? biz de anlad?k.

Sen yan?lm??s?n babac???m. Beni de yan?ltt?n. Sessiz faziletlerin heykeli dikilmiyor. Daha ba?ka ölçüler var; daha do?rusu her zaman varm?? da biz bilmiyormu?uz Özellikle ülkemizde durum böyle.

?u anda, sana güzel bir söz söyleyebilmek için, on bin kitap okumu? olmay? isterdim" dedi: Gene de az geli?mi? bir cümle söylemeden içim rahat etmeyecek: "Seni tan?d???ma çok sevindim kendi çap?mda...

Sende çocukça bir büyüklük var

What-ifs are for fools

I had learned years ago that despite what so many adults always said, there really was such a thing as a stupid question. I had asked a number of them myself over the course of my life. But, I had also learned that life required asking stupid questions every now and then.

Knowledge is a package that time unwraps

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.