{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw21.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw21.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nReason is a light in the heart which distinguishes between truth and error.\nA wise man sees with his heart what a fool does not see with his eyes.\nMen should be judged according to their lights (reason).\nA wise man is not he who considers how he may get out of an evil, but he who sees that he does not fall into it.\nActions are judged by their endings. If you desire a thing, consider its end.\nA man cannot be wise without experience.\nNo wise man will be bitten twice from the same den.\nNo boon is so remunerative as reason.\nLong experience is an addition to mind.\nConsideration may take the place of experience.\nA wise man is he who has been taught by experience.\nOne word is sufficient to the wise man.\nA cheap offer makes a wise purchaser wary.\nHe who considers consequences will attain his object, and he who does not carefully think on them, evil will be sure to overtake him.\nEverything has need of reason, and reason has need of experience.\nMind and experience are like water and earth co-operating\u2014neither of which alone can bring forth a flower.\nReason and anxious thought are inseparable.\nA wise man is never happy. (For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.\u2014Eccles. i. 18.)","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Wisdom, Prudence, Experience","type":"page"}