Wisdom Quotes - Page 9

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

In the heavens there is calmness and on the earth there is beauty. In the gardens there is freshness and in you there is a sign. In the sea there is might and in the air there is nourishment. Take from all this comfort for your soul and recovery for your mind. And do not waste your time by being unmindful, this will shield you from good and lead you to evil.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.