Quotes About Wisdom

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God's help in solving his philosophical and scientific problems. And it is also perfectly understandable why the purification of the soul is considered an integral part of the methodology of knowledge.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said: Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

Sitting alone and apart, anybody has the right to talk with contempt of the mob and the crowd and the witless many. For everybody with his wits about him knows well enough that, once the crowd takes him again, he will do very silly things, things unworthy of so intelligent a person.

Care, says the proverb, once killed a cat. It may be so, but it has killed never another.

I envy most my cat. Of all my friends she is the wisest. She is sixty miles away from where I sit here writing. Yet I know well how it is with her. That little half-hour of sun has found her stretched out upon a wicker-work seat under the old vine that is southward of my house. Her fur was warm in it and keeps yet the warmth. She is content.

Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead!

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him. If you ask advice, you will almost always side with Satan. ". . . I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood . . ." (Galatians 1:16).

Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says.

Wait for the fruit to manifest itself and do not be guided by your own fancy.

The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.

The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.

We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but thereis sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.