Wisdom Quotes - Page 39

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Passion, Men, Prejudice

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Islamic, Honour You, Ignorant

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• Beware of the flight of Blessings,
  For nothing that runs away is returned.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Running, Islamic, Blessing

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• O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Islamic, Fall, People

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

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Piercings, Spoken Word

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

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Light, Darkness

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• Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Meaningful, Islamic, Writing

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• 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

  Islamic, Order, Giving

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• There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

  Shaqiq al-Balkhi

  Regret, Islamic, Heart

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• Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Believe, Passion

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• Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
  there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
  He has guaranteed that he will respond
  in what He chooses for you,
  and not what you choose for yourself,
  and at the time He chooses
  not the time you desire.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Islamic, Despair, Desire

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• Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.

  Abu Dhar al-Ghifari

  Blessed, Islamic, Two

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• 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

  Islamic, Ignorance, Pride

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• I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Islamic, Years, Twenties

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• 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

  Islamic, Men, People

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• 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

  Nice, Islamic, People

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• If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Islamic, Doors, Differences

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• Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

  Abdullah, Son of Masud

  Regret, Islamic, Past

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• Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

  Hafez

  Islamic, Men, Dear Ones

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• If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

  Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

  Islamic, Hands, Action

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• Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!

  Lillian Frank

  Eye, Opportunity, Way

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• My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

  Poppy King

  Business, Believe, Self

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• Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

  Poppy King

  Business, Average, Want

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