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Wisdom Quotes by Al-Ghazali
- Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
- It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.
- Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
- Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
- The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
- If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him…
- If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
- In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience…
- No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which…
- A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
- To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the…
- Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its…
- 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…
- Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from…
- Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and…
- 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…
- You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
- Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each…
- There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed…
- The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing…
- The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
- Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
- Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the…
- A man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold