Wisdom Quotes - Page 84

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life...!

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long time. It requires us to be more fully and simply alive than we have been taught to be. It may require us to suffer. But ultimately we will be more than we were when we began. There is the seed of a greater wholeness in everyone.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.