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Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.
Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.
Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.