knowledge

"Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass."

"Soup [10w] Never marry anyone who eats their soup with a ladle."

"By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other."

"My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving."

"To be the only one who knows is lonely. No wonder Solomon, the wisest man, needed 900 concubines."

"Sharia Justice [10w] Sharia justice is a lynch mob masquerading as Allah's will."

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

"Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.*توما الحكيم"

"The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power."

"The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)"

"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

"Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass."

"Charity [10w] Contentment over your life is the best aphrodisiac for charity."

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."

"While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment."

"Switch Hitter [10w] Aphorisms are penned in my left brain,poetry, my right."

"Garden [10w] A garden is a poem written with flowers on earth."

"Genocide [10w] Genocide is the runaway bride once death becomes the bridegroom."

"We understand more than we know."

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."