Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A) Quotes

"To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul."

"Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply."

"He who understands humanity seeks solitude."

"The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others."

"People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity."

"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you."

"Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom."

"Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings."

"The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration."

"There is no nobility with bad manners."

"One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision."

"The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive."

"During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."

"Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith."

"Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing."

"Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you."

"Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!"

"The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired."

"Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet."

"No one has ever suffered from his people as I have."

"Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it."

"Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see."

"The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body."

"Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive."

"Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you."

"Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love."

"Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him."

"True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies."

"A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding."

"No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance."