Wisdom Quotes - Page 13

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.