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

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

Vanity prevents improvement

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.