Al-Ghazali Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Prayer Quotes

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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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

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Tags : Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Islamic Quotes

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

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The wisest of the wise may err.

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Flames Quotes

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Taken Quotes

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Art Quotes

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Education Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Good Life Quotes

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Religious Quotes

You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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Tags : Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Islamic Quotes

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes