Learn to be quiet just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quiet protects you. By being quiet, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you. -Imam Ali (AS)

Learn to be quiet just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quiet protects you. By being quiet, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you.

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it. -Imam Ali (AS)

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. -Hazrat Ali (A.S)

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

The vision of the eye is limited, but the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space. -Imam Ali (AS)

The vision of the eye is limited, but the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

The words of Allah are the medicine of the heart. -Imam Ali (AS)

The words of Allah are the medicine of the heart.

The listener to backbiting is the same as the backbiter. -Imam Ali (AS)

The listener to backbiting is the same as the backbiter. 

Do not be a slave to others when Allah has created you free. -Hazrat Ali (AS)

Do not be a slave to others when Allah has created you free.

Fear Allah and you will have no cause to fear anyone else. -Imam Ali (AS)

Fear Allah and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and confidence in the mercy of God, and not to be too sure and over confident of immunity from His wrath and punishment. -Imam Ali (AS)

He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and confidence in the mercy of God, and not to be too sure and over confident of immunity from His wrath and punishment.