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  • #1
    “The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.”
    ― Thomas Cleary (Ways of Warriors Codes of Kings)
    tags: judgement, knowledge, observer
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  • #2
    “What has he found who has lost God?
    And what has he lost who has found God?”
    ― Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
    tags: islam, religion, spirituality, sufism
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  • #3
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
    “Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of Him] with His remembrance [of them] - verily God (Exalted is He!) has said, 'Remember Me, and I will remember you' - Opening lines from Kitab al-Adhkar wa'l Da'awat of the Ihya ulum ad-Din”
    ― al-Ghazali
    tags: compassion, dhikr, ihya-ulum-ad-din, invocation, kitab-al-adhkar, kitab-al-adhkar-wa-l-da-awat, mercy, of-allah, of-god, praise, remember, remembrance
    40 likes

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  • #4
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
    8501 likes

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  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
    12770 likes

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  • #6
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7785 likes

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  • #7
    Michael H. Hart
    “My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.”
    ― Michael H. Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
    tags: history, phenpomena, religion, social, truth
    148 likes

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  • #8
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
    1637 likes

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  • #9
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    6697 likes

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  • #10
    Saadi
    “It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.”
    ― Saadi
    tags: mysticism, sufi-wisdom
    9 likes

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  • #11
    Idries Shah
    “Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”
    ― Idries Shah, The Sufis
    tags: evolution, learning, saadi-quotes, sufis, sufism
    48 likes

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  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
    2499 likes

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  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
    5865 likes

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  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
    15474 likes

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  • #15
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
    7299 likes

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  • #16
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
    “Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
    ― Imam Al-Ghazali
    275 likes

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  • #17
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
    2933 likes

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  • #18
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
    2967 likes

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  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
    ― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
    tags: human-condition, love, relationships
    167 likes

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  • #20
    Seamus Heaney
    “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
    tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry
    2623 likes

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  • #21
    Jean Baudrillard
    “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
    557 likes

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  • #22
    “Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave”
    ― Prophet Muhammad, Al-Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
    tags: hadith, islam, islamic-quotes, prophet-muhammad-saw
    59 likes

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  • #23
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
    1570 likes

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  • #24
    Holly Lynn Payne
    “If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.”
    ― Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
    tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, roses, rumi, sweetness
    20 likes

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  • #25
    Muhammad Iqbal
    “Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
    Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

    Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
    Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali”
    ― Allama Mohammad Iqbal
    tags: ghazzali, iqbal, islam, muslim, philosophy
    37 likes

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  • #26
    Karen Armstrong
    “I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.”
    ― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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  • #27
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
    6127 likes

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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18875 likes

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  • #29
    Charles Le Gai Eaton
    “The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself”
    ― Gai Eaton, Islam and the Destiny of Man
    29 likes



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