Ameen Rihani Quotes

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Know all and you will pardon all.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.