Wisdom Quotes

Unconsciously, I had doubts about everything around me, and all I had to do is to act selfish, and to walk through everything like a wise lady. So I attracted their eyes and I haunted their thoughts.

~ Sara Keddar

If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

~ Crystal Woods

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

~ Marmaduke William Pickthall

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

~ Samuel Morse

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

~ Coco Chanel

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

~ Idries Shah

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

~ Idries Shah

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.

~ Idries Shah

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

~ Idries Shah

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

~ Idries Shah

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

~ Idries Shah

ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

~ Idries Shah

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

~ Idries Shah

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

~ Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

~ Idries Shah

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.

~ Idries Shah

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

~ Idries Shah

Definition of a SufiTo learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that 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

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar

~ Idries Shah

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.

~ John Daniel

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

~ Chris Prentiss

Where's your church?We're standing in it.But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday.Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space.

~ Forrest Church

You have to look closely to see clearly.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.

~ Debasish Mridha

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.

~ Andy Biersack

Be gentle and humble in heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.

~ Clement Of Alexandria

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

~ Rebecca Edmund

Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: ‘O our Lord God, we most humbly pray…!’Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner.

~ Idries Shah

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full.

~ Tom Althouse

For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

~ Therese Walsh

Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.

~ Angelica Hopes

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

~ Germany Kent

Life can get tough, but it's never impossible with a good attitude to your latitude.

~ Mary-Ellen Peters

Our happiness should not depend on external things, it is the expression of internal attitudes.

~ Debasish Mridha