Wisdom Quote by Elif Shafak — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Mourning is like virginity. You should give it to the one who deserves it most.”

“God created sufferings so that joy might appear through its opposite. Things become manifest through opposites. Since God has no opposite, He remains hidden.”

“God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.”

“Poverty is a nation with no borders and he is no foreigner in it but a native son.”

“We live in an age of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom.”

“It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.”

“When you are fed up looking for happiness or motivation outside; look inside.”

“We are taught to fear being forgotten, but some things deserve to be let go. That’s not erasure—it’s release.”

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”

“Pain doesn’t shape you by what it takes away, but by what it leaves behind wisdom.”

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”