If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.