Imam Ali > Quotes

“I will be patient, until even patience tires of my patience.”
― Imam Ali

“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
― Imam Ali

“What you hide in your heart, appears in your eyes.”
― Imam Ali

“Practice makes knowledge perfect.”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“This entire world is not worth a single tear.”
― Imam Ali

“Be gentle with human hearts, for when they are forced into something, they go blind.”
― Imam Ali

“Not every man with a heart is understanding, not every man with ears is a listener, and not every man with eyes is able to see.”
― imam ali

“The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“Honesty is divine language.”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“To respect the learned is to respect God”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“Knowledge creates fear of God”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“To teach is to learn”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“Knowledge gives life to the soul”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.”
― Imam Ali

“The world is a transient place, not a place of stay" Imam Ali (AS)”
― Imam Ali, Nahj Al-Balaghah, Vol. 2

“The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce”
― Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

“How strange is man. He destroys his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past.”
― Imam Ali