Al-Ghazali Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Islamic Quotes

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

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Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

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The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

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Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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