Quotes on Wisdom

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Toleration is the best religion.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.