1,330 quotes found
“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.”
“The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.”
“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.”
“All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.”
“You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.”
“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.”
“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.”
“Words have to die if humans are to live.”
“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”
“The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.”
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.”
“Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.”
“Do not try to be humble: learn humility.”
“If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.”
“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.”
“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”
“Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.”
