Wisdom

"Do not be too sure, young fellows,That you are better than your ancestors."

"Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind."

"If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience."

"God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days."

"What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?The serenity only a deliberate hebetude,The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secrets Useless in the darkness into which they peered Or from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us,At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,For the pattern is new in every moment And every moment is a new and shocking Valuation of all we have been. We are only undeceived Of that which, deceiving, could no longer harm."

"Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom."

"Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine."

"We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way"

"I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines."

"Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones."

"Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones."

"They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you."

"The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes"

"There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse."

"Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'."

"In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man."

"Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with."

"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."

"If we want to go Fast than go Alone but if We want to go Far, lets go Together..adopt the "We" spirit.. Life isn't all about "Selfie"

"Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience."