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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.
The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.