Quotes on Wisdom

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.