"A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey"

"Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife."

"Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn."

"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."

"The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?"

"People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions."

"The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists."

"Patience is a garment which has never worn out."

"Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books."

"Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities."