Wisdom Quotes - Page 15

Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you want peace, work for justice.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.