Ibn Taymiyya Quotes

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.