Wisdom Quotes - Page 65

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for.

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.