Quotes about wisdom
wisdom islamic sea
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. Saadi
wisdom islamic elephants
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
wisdom fall islamic
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
wisdom voice soul
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul. Rumi
wisdom path-of-love madness
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
wisdom islamic journey
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
wisdom rain limitless
Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
wisdom islamic able
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?
wisdom looks pearls
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
wisdom islamic men
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.
wisdom real islamic
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
wisdom islamic ifs-and
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. Roy Hattersley
wisdom daughter rap
The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her. Susan Sarandon
wisdom men may
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one. Thomas a Kempis
wisdom thinking perfection
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
wisdom intelligent affair
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. Sidney Hook
wisdom jobs wake-up
And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything. Natalie Goldberg
wisdom thinking years
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade. Tony Robbins
wisdom fun affliction
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves. Simone Weil
wisdom justice modern
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
wisdom new-year time
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
wisdom men doubt
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility. Thomas Merton
wisdom thorns penance
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
wisdom peace men
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31
wisdom integrity men
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.
wisdom crazy book
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.
wisdom men light
The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.
wisdom school men
The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.
wisdom book thinking
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.
wisdom prayer angel
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.
wisdom light darkness
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
wisdom light bird
For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.
wisdom jesus suffering-and-death
....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.