Quotes on Wisdom

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message.

The wisest of the wise may err.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.