Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.