Quotes About Growth

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

If you will not reprove yourself,' Saadi says, 'you will not welcome reproof from another.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Who is the wrong person to criticise? You

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

Words have to die if humans are to live.

Stages First I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong. What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone. (Ardabili)

A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

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

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