Top 1200 Sufi Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

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

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.