Wisdom Quotes - Page 13

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.
Debasish Mridha
Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.
Debasish Mridha
Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty and purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.
Bryant McGill
The phrase "I dont know" is the most honest thing anyone could ever say.
Markus W. Lunner
Your uniqueness is the master key that unlocks the hidden treasures of your lifetime.
Bryant McGill
You fellas don' know what you're doin. You're helpin to starve kids...You don' know what you're a' doin'.
John Steinbeck
The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.
Martin Sheen
Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people
Benny Bellamacina
In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong
Benny Bellamacina
Do short people reach their full potential quicker?
Benny Bellamacina
A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.
Debasish Mridha
Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and goodness to set the pattern and govern he world in the was of peace, decency and mutual respect. I do not believe God ever intended it to be that way. He wants us to reach out and learn from the wisdom he has given to humanity over broad sweeps of time and place and personality.
S. Michael Wilcox
Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.
Kate Horsley
Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.
Sandra Chami Kassis
I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
Tim Minchin
Diversity is wisdom.
Sheila Renee Parker
Capitalism—trade and industry controlled by people instead of a state—is a fine notion. Sadly, it has devolved into a culture in which tradesmen and industrialists lie, cheat, and sacrifice themselves and others for money to buy stuff that doesn’t work, doesn’t last, and doesn’t matter. And after they’re dead, their lives haven’t mattered. Even if they built a city, others will tear it down one day to build a park. Successful capitalists invest themselves in the lives of others.
Ron Brackin
To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work "the mirror with a memory" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor…. Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth" (Minor White, Newhall, 281).
Minor White
LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
Mina Loy
She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it.
Aspen Matis
It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
Aspen Matis
Childhood is a wilderness.
Aspen Matis
Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they’ve never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn’t a child anymore.
Aspen Matis
I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.
Aspen Matis
I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.
Aspen Matis
He understood. In lovesickness we had found a common language.
Aspen Matis
We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.
Aspen Matis
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You've done well, and honourably.
M.J. Carter
She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her.
Kimberly Kinrade
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet.
Herman Melville
It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.
Sophocles
During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.
Napoleon Hill
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where money is adored, it’s almost impossible to grow up and to grow up honest inside. It is almost impossible. Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. But to grow up, to take responsibility for the time you take up, and the space you occupy, to honor every living person for his or her humanity, that is to grow up.
Maya Angelou
You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.
Kate Jacobs
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
Idries Shah
An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
Tahir Shah
In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach from it, and look at something else.Once he has found something to interest himself in, he cannot detach himself from it efficiently, and therefore he cannot be objective. Note that, in most if not all languages, we have words like 'objectivity' which leads people to imagine that they have it, or can easily use it. That is equivalent (in reality if not in theory) to saying 'I know the word “gold”, so I am rich.
Idries Shah
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
Idries Shah
The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
Idries Shah
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Idries Shah
Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
Idries Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
Idries Shah
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
Idries Shah
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
Idries Shah
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
Idries Shah
The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.
Idries Shah
Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
Idries Shah
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Idries Shah
WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
Idries Shah
Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.
Idries Shah
Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.
Idries Shah
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Idries Shah
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
Idries Shah
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
Idries Shah

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