Wisdom Quotes - Page 31

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Little by little does the trick.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

The trouble is you think you have time.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message.

Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.