We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

There are things you need to know that you already know.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches.