Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Taken, Islamic

• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

• Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
  Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
  You Presume you are a small entity,
  But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
  You are indeed the evident book,
  By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
  Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
  What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

• Put aside your pride,
  Set down your arrogance,
  And remember your grave.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

• A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

• Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

• A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

• Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Pain, Islamic

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

• Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Change, Inspiring, Wise

• Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Broken Spirit, Squash

• The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Use

• Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, World

• I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Hope, Wisdom

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

• To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Nice, Islamic

• The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

• How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Life Lesson, Taken

• Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Piercings

• Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Grief

• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Advice

• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Greed

• Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Order

• Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

• Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ignorance

• The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Light

• Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

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