Quotes About Reflection

Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

It is wiser to abstain then to repent.

This world is not a permanent place, it is a passage, a road on which you are passing. There are two kinds of people here: One is the kind of those who have sold their souls for eternal damnation, the other is of those who have purchased their souls and freed them from damnation.

Blessed is the man who always kept the life after death in his view, who remembered the Day of Judgment through all his deeds, who led a contented life and who was happy with the lot that God had destined for him.

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

Take warning! He has not exposed so many of your sinful activities that it appears as if He has forgiven you (it may be that He has given you time to repent).

O son of Adam, when you see that your Lord, the Glorified, bestows His Favors on you while you disobey Him, you should fear Him (take warning that His Wrath may not turn those very blessings into misfortunes).

Surely the likeness of this world is that of a snake: it is soft to touch, and deadly poisonous. The ignorant child is distracted by it, and the one with understanding and intellect is cautious of it. So turn away from what fascinates you in it, for how little of it stays with you.

Submission to God's Will is the best companion; wisdom is the noblest heritage; theoretical and practical knowledge are the best signs of distinction; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem.

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.

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

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Silence is the garden of thought.

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

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.

The whole point is, we can forget. It's important that we forget some things. Otherwise we'd go round the world carrying a hotload of stuff we just don't need.

always looking off to the side. But that's good too. It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.