“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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Wise Quotes — page 22 of 916
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
“Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.”
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
“No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do”
“One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.”
“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
“I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.”
“The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.”
“A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.”