Quotes About Wisdom

Debating an ignorant tires me.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life.

All short stories long.

Whatever age you are, he says. You still die young.

Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But

It was now free of obviousness.

Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.

No era viejo, ella había acertado. Nadie verdaderamente viejo se sentaría con las piernas cruzadas o abrazándose las rodillas de ese modo. Los viejos solo podían sentarse como si los hubiese paralizado una pistola paralizante).

Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you'd faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you'd come, follow your own thread, the thread you'd left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –

Life throws the years at your feet soon enough, so learn to enjoy each stage as it happens.

to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!

Know thyself, for in thyself is to be found all that there is to be known," is still the rule for the wise student. If each one of us would scientifically regard ourselves as centres of force, holding the matter of our bodies within our radius of control, and thus working through and in them, we should have a hypothesis whereby the entire cosmic scheme could be interpreted.

Much must remain esoteric and veiled. The risks of too much knowledge are far greater than the menace of too little. With knowledge comes responsibility and power,—two things for which the race is not yet ready. Therefore, all we can do is to study and correlate with what wisdom and discretion may be ours, using the knowledge that may come for the good of those we seek to help, and recognising that in the wise use of knowledge comes increased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom.