I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.