Wisdom Quotes - Page 32

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

My son, when you pray, do it like a person who is bidding farewell to this world, and don't assume you will have another chance to pray again. My son, know that a believer dies in between two deeds, one he offers for today, where he will get immediate blessings, and the second deed is what he offers towards the day of resurrection, and that is where he will gain the ultimate benefits

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.