✦⋆· said, "Verily wisdom is the light of every heart."

✦⋆· said, "A word of wisdom that the believer hears is better than the worship of one year."

● "The heart bears wisdom when the stomach is empty, and the heart throws out wisdom when the stomach is full."

● "The fountainhead of wisdom is the fear of Allah, moderation, to be bound to the truth and to obey the one on the path of the truth ."

● "Verily the noblest speech is the remembrance of Allah and the fountainhead of wisdom is His obedience."

✦⋆· "Wisdom is the garden of the intelligent ones and the amusement of the noble."

● "Loving one another is half of wisdom."

● "Acquire wisdom and truth from whomever you can because even an apostate can have them but unless they are passed over to a faithful Muslim and become part of wisdom and truth that he possesses, they have a confused existence in the minds of apostates."

● "Knowledge and wisdom are really the privilege of a faithful Muslim. If you have lost them, get them back even though you may have to get them from the apostates."

● "There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation."

● "Wisdom is a tree that grows in the heart and produces fruit on the tongue."

● "A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks."

● "Wiser a man is, the less talkative he'll be."

● "A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."

● "There is no wisdom except through inerrancy."

● "Conquer your vain desire and your wisdom will be perfected."

● "The one who is known for [his] wisdom is regarded by the eyes with dignity and awe."

● "Whoever has wisdom established [in his heart] for him, becomes one who adheres to admonition."

● "Verily the wise men lost wisdom when they deposited it with those who were unworthy of it."

● "Wisdom is the lost property of the believer, so seek it even from the polytheist for you will be more deserving and worthier of it [than him]."

● "The one who seeks fulfilment of his need from an unwise person is [himself] not a wise person."

● "A person who does not deal amicably with someone for whom amicableness is the only option is not a wise man."

● "The opening of wisdom is abandoning the [illicit] pleasures, and the peak of it is to detest the transient things."

● "Many people get nothing out of their fasts but hunger and thirst, many more get nothing out of their night prayers but exertions and sleepless nights.

Wise and sagacious people are praiseworthy even if they do not fast and sleep during the nights."

● "From among [the matters of] wisdom is to avoid dispute with one who is above you,

To not disesteem anyone other than yourself,

To not undertake a task which is outside of your capability,

To not have your tongue contradict your heart and neither your word [contradict] your action,

To not speak of that which you do not know,

And to not abandon a matter as it approaches only to pursue it as it retreats."

✦⋆· when he was asked by Abu Basir regarding the words of Allah's verse, "and he who is given wisdom..." said, 'It [wisdom] is obedience to Allah and true knowledge of the Imam."

✦⋆· "Verily wisdom is inner knowledge and deep understanding of religion, for the one who understands among you is truly the wise man."

● "Whoever abstains from worldly pleasures, Allah will establish wisdom in his heart and make it flow from his tongue."

● "Much contemplation on [matters of] wisdom causes the intellect to flourish."

● "Anger is a destroyer of the wise man's heart, whoever cannot control his anger cannot control his intellect."

✦⋆· "Verily a seed grows in soft ground and does not grow on stone, in the same way that wisdom thrives in the heart of the humble and does not thrive in the heart of the proud and haughty , because Allah has made humbleness the instrument of the intellect."

● "Do not grant the ignorant ones wisdom for they will not do justice to it, and do not deprive it to those who are worthy of it for you will do injustice to them."

✦⋆· "Wisdom does not avail an immoral character."