Wisdom Quotes - Page 12

Don't stumble over something behind you.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.