Quotes on Wisdom

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.