Art of Wisdom

“What man knows the least, he believes the most.”

“Right and clean deeds are always measured and dignified. Where there is no measure, there is fighting, noise and injustice.”

“All my effort is to live without needing anyone. All my hope is in myself.”

“Kindness doesn't make money, but it buys everything.”

“Everyone's eyes are on the outside, but I turn my eyes inward and let them wander inside me. Everyone looks ahead, I look inward. I am all about myself.”

“Every human being has all the states of humanity.”

“It is a great naivety to teach our children the science of the stars and the motions of the eighth-story heavens before their own world.”

“Actually, people don't disappoint you. It's just that you are fantasizing about the wrong people.”

“Everything needs its season; everything with good things and moments.”

“Wherever we go, we take our chains with us. It is not complete freedom; we stop and look at what we have left behind; our dreams remain full of it. What awaits a person if he is not purified inside. What battles he fights with himself in vain! Gnawing anxieties within his passions. What fears one writhes in! What depressions pride, lust, anger, slackness and laziness make in us! Our evil is within us, and our insides cannot get rid of themselves.”

“It is easy to lead an educated people in one direction, but difficult to drag them along; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave them.”

“Become a world for yourself in desolate places.”

“I have seen neither a monster nor a miracle greater than myself in this world.”

“A man who is afraid of suffering is already suffering what he fears.”