He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
Love is wiser than wisdom.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
Truth never hurts the teller.
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications have to be given up. It is very difficult for people because they are so conditioned and as long as you have conditioning you cannot rise above your mind, which is a myth, you cannot.
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit. . . . this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.
We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
