Quotes on Wisdom

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.