knowledge

However much knowledge you gain, without putting it into practice you remain ignorant.

Powerful is whoever has knowledge; through knowledge even an old heart grows young.

When your heart is cleansed of worldly attributes, the light of the Divine Essence begins to shine within it.

Knowledge without forbearance is worthless as the dust of the street; knowledge joined with forbearance is as precious as one's honor.

Whoever lacks knowledge is lost; his hand falls short of reaching that higher abode.

Knowledge guides a man to paradise; ignorance drags a man into hellfire.

Strive, learn knowledge, and cast your light — for the chance you have been given has no equal.

Whoever became intimate with the heart remained in the beloved's sanctuary; whoever knew not this art remained in denial.

The wise are the fixed point of the compass of being, yet love knows they still wander lost within its circle.

This reason that seeks the path of happiness tells you itself, a hundred times a day.

Skill is an ever-flowing spring, and an everlasting fortune.

The learned sons of villagers rose to become the king's ministers.

Seek the path through the words of the wise; travel the world and share it with everyone.

When you glimpse a branch of learning, you will know that knowledge never reaches its root.

Seek knowledge and learn greatness, so your days are seen to improve, day upon day.

People's wisdom is in their eyes. (≈ Seeing is believing)

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Asking is not shameful, not knowing is. (≈ He that nothing questions, nothing learns)

In schools we learned the lesson wrong; of all meanings we understood only the words.

To the wise, even with a hundred purses of gold, the ignorant man remains worthless and without honor.

Teaching knowledge and skill to the ill-natured is like putting a sword in a highwayman's hand.

The luminous teacher makes you aware of the path, and joins light together with his speech.