All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.”

“…they say [Finn] has tasted the Nuts of Wisdom.” Elatha laughed. “Perhaps the Nuts of Wisdom will gird him against your sister.”

“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman’s diaries when I was twenty.”

“Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap”

“A man must…not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”

“القوة الجديدة التي يخلقها “العلم” تكون خيّرة بقدر الحكمة التي يتميز بها الإنسان ، وتكون شريرة بقدر ما في الإنسان من حمق !لذلك فإن أُريدَ للحضارة العلمية أن تكون حضارة خيرة ، فقد وجب أن تقترن بزيادة المعرفة زيادة في الحكمة ، وأعني بالحكمة الإدراك السليم لغايات الحياة . وهذا في ذاته أمر لا يقدمه العلم . فزيادة العلم لا تكفي لتحقيق رقي صادق ، وإن قدمت واحداً من مقومات الرقي .”

“Kalau kau mulai menunda hal-hal yang ingin kau lakukan untuk hari lain, hari esok itu tak pernah datang”

“…you have to be godly to be wise …”

“You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.”

“人間の最大の武器は、習慣と信頼だ”

“Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.”

“You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?”

“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

“Love is the divine Mother’s arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them.The Sufis of all ages have been known for their beautiful personality. It does not mean that among them there have not been people with great powers, wonderful powers and wisdom. But beyond all that, what is most known of the Sufis is the human side of their nature: that tact which attuned them to wise and foolish, to poor and rich, to strong and weak — to all. They met everyone on his own plane, they spoke to everyone in his own language. What did Jesus teach when he said to the fishermen, ‘Come hither, I will make you fishers of men?’ It did not mean, ‘I will teach you ways by which you get the best of man.’ It only meant: your tact, your sympathy will spread its arms before every soul who comes, as mother’s arms are spread out for her little ones.”

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”