Wisdom Quotes - Page 24

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.