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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge guides [one] to the truth.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the lamp of the intellect and the fountain of excellence.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the killer of ignorance and the earner of nobility.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge without action is a plague.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a great treasure that does not get exhausted.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is one of the two lives.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the better of the two intimate companions.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the better of the two beauties.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge about Allah is the better of the two types of knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is an honourable heritage and a universal blessing.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge saves [one] from being entangled in perplexity.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is evidence of intellect, so the one who knows has intelligence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the enlivener of the soul, the illuminator of the intellect and the annihilator of ignorance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the fruit of wisdom and rightness is from its branches.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the greatest honour for the one who has no [honourable] past.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is greater than can be encompassed [in its totality], so take the best from every [branch of] knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a governor while wealth is governed.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge guides you towards that which Allah has commanded you to do and renunciation of worldly pleasures makes the path to it easier for you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is better than wealth; knowledge guards you while you guard wealth.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is linked to action, so one who knows, acts.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge calls out to action, so if it responds to it [then it stays] otherwise it departs.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge guides you and action takes you to the goal.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the first guide and cognizance is the final end.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is of two types: the intuitive and the learnt; the intuitive knowledge is of no benefit if there is no learnt knowledge [accompanying it].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Know, then speak.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Seek knowledge and you will increase in knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Acquire knowledge, for indeed if you are wealthy it will adorn you and if you are poor it will provide for you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Seek knowledge and you will be rightly guided.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Acquire knowledge and it will earn you life.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Draw water from the clear spring which has been cleansed of all impurity.88

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Seek knowledge and you will be known for it, act upon it and you will become from those who are worthy of [possessing] it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed, the one who does not know should never be ashamed to learn, for the value of every person is [measured by] what he knows.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed, the one who is asked about that which he does not know should never consider it demeaning to say 'I don't know'.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most useful knowledge is that which is acted upon.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best knowledge is that which is accompanied by action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most honourable knowledge is that which is manifested in the organs and limbs.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The lowliest knowledge is that which stops at the tongue [and is not acted upon].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most victorious of all people is he who overpowers his vain desire with his knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most important knowledge for you is that without which [your good] action is not accepted.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most obligatory knowledge for you [to acquire] is that which you are responsible for acting upon.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The most necessary knowledge for you is that which guides you to rectitude of your religion and separates you from its corruption.89

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The knowledge with the most praiseworthy end is that which increases your [good] actions in this world and draws you nearer [to the mercy of Allah] in the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily the best of knowledge is [that which leads to] tranquillity and forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed fire is not diminished by what is taken from it but is extinguished when it does not find firewood; similarly, knowledge is not depleted by being acquired but the miserliness of those who possess it is the cause of its absence.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily Allah, the Glorified, bestows wealth to the one whom He loves and the one whom He hates, but He does not grant knowledge except to the one whom He loves.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Verily knowledge guides, directs and saves while ignorance misguides, misdirects and destroys.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge rescues.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is through understanding.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a treasure.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is honour, obedience is [a] refuge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a guide.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge saves you, ignorance destroys you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is loftiness, ignorance is misguidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is life, faith is salvation.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge makes one lofty, ignorance misguides.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a refuge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is through action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the annihilator of ignorance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the adornment of distinction [and noble descent].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the leader of forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the most excellent honour.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the lamp of the intellect.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the best guide.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the most sublime provision.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the greatest treasure.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is life and a cure [for the maladies of the heart].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a veil [that protects one] from adversities.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the highest success.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the best acquisition.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the riding mount of forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the root of every good.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the symbol of intellect.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the fecundation of cognizance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge aids [and strengthens] reflection.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is indeed a good guide.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the most excellent (or honourable) guidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Sciences are the recreation of the men of erudition.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the root of forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the killer of ignorance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the herald of comprehension.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge does not end.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is abundant but action is scarce.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a great treasure that does not get exhausted.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a [means of] right guidance for the one who acts upon it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

All of knowledge is a proof [against its possessor] except what is acted upon.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is a beauty that does not remain concealed and a relation that does not abandon you (or that is not hidden).

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the adornment of the wealthy and the wealth of the poor.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Indeed the only thing that has made people disinclined to seeking knowledge is the frequency with which they observe that only a few people act upon what they know.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The bane of knowledge is to forsake acting upon it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When you hear knowledge then treat it seriously and do not taint it with jesting, thereby making the hearts spit it out.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When you want to benefit from knowledge then act upon it and increase in your contemplation about its meanings, [for through this] it will be retained by the hearts.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

When the knowledge of a person increases, his etiquette improves and his awe for his Lord increases.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through knowledge, wisdom is recognized.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through knowledge, there is life.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through knowledge, the crooked is straightened.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Sharing knowledge [with those who deserve] is the alms-tax of knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Through knowledge, the station of forbearance is attained.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The completeness of knowledge is [in] its application.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The completeness of knowledge is [in] acting according to it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The one who forsakes acting on [his] knowledge is not certain of getting reward for his action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of knowledge is cognizance of Allah.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of knowledge is worship.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of knowledge is acting upon it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of knowledge is working for [a blissful] life [in the Hereafter].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The fruit of knowledge is sincerity of action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The wealth of knowledge saves and preserves.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The beauty of knowledge is [in] its dissemination, its fruit is [in] acting upon it, and its preservation is [in] placing it with those who are worthy of it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of knowledge is that which gives benefit.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of all knowledge is that which reforms you.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best knowledge is that which is accompanied by action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The best of knowledge is that by which you reform your right guidance, and the worst of it is that by which you corrupt your Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Take from every knowledge the best of it, for indeed the bee partakes from the most beautiful of every flower, so two precious substances are produced from it: in one of them is a cure for the people (i.e. honey), and the other is a means of illumination (i.e. wax).

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The cornerstone of [all] merits is knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Many a knowledge may lead to your misguidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The alms-tax of knowledge is its dissemination.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The alms-tax of knowledge is granting it to the one who deserves it and exerting the self to act upon it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The adornment of knowledge is forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The cause of fear [of Allah] is knowledge.90

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Ask about that which you must know and cannot be excused for being ignorant about.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst knowledge is that by which you corrupt your right guidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The worst knowledge is knowledge that is not action upon.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There are two things the ends of which can never be reached: knowledge and intellect.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The disgrace of knowledge is boasting.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

You must acquire knowledge, for indeed it is an honourable heritage.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The knowledge of a hypocrite is [only] on his tongue.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The knowledge of a believer is [manifested] in his action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge without action is like trees without fruit.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge without action is like a bow without a bowstring.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge that is not useful is like a medicine that does not cure.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge that does not reform you is misguidance and wealth that does not benefit you is a curse.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge without action is a proof of Allah against His servant.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The goal of knowledge is good action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The utmost goal of knowledge is fear of [the displeasure of] Allah, the Glorified.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The end goal of knowledge is tranquillity and forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The excellence of knowledge is [in] acting upon it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Saying 'I don't know' is half of knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Little knowledge accompanied with action is better than a lot of it without action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge cuts off the excuse of those who offer [many] excuses.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

All knowledge that is not supported by the intellect is misguidance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Everything diminishes when it is expended except knowledge.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Everything becomes precious when it becomes less (or scarce) except knowledge, for indeed it gains value when it abounds.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Every vessel becomes constricted by what is put in it except the vessel of knowledge, for verily it becomes wider.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is sufficient as loftiness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Every time the knowledge of a person increases, his concern for his soul increases, and he exerts his efforts in training and reforming it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Just as knowledge guides a person and saves him, similarly, ignorance misguides him and destroys him.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The acquisition of knowledge is indifference towards worldly pleasures.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The perfection of knowledge is forbearance, and the perfection of forbearance is increased tolerance and suppression [of anger].

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The perfection of knowledge is action.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

For the seeker of knowledge, there is honour in this world and success in the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge will never bear fruit until it is accompanied by forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

None will attain knowledge except the one who lengthens his [period of] study.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The language of knowledge is truthfulness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The conception of knowledge is imagination and understanding.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who seeks right guidance from knowledge, it guides him.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who is alone with knowledge does not feel frightened by [his] loneliness.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who is not guided by knowledge is misguided by ignorance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who acts with knowledge attains his goal and desire from the Hereafter.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who is fond of knowledge has [actually] done good to his soul.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever hides [his] knowledge, it is as if he is an ignorant person.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who acts against his knowledge, his crime and sin become grave.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One whose knowledge exceeds his intellect, it becomes a burden for him.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who learns (or lacks) the depth of knowledge proceeds (or is repelled) from the ways of wisdom.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who quenches his thirst from the drinking-fountain of knowledge, covers himself with the gown of forbearance.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who increases his study of knowledge [and discussion about what he has learnt] does not forget what he knows and benefits from it that which he does not know.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who increases his reflection about what he has learnt safeguards his knowledge and understands that which he would not have [otherwise] understood.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who does not acquire wealth through knowledge, acquires grace by it.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Whoever does not act upon his knowledge, it becomes a proof against him and a curse.

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Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

From the perfection of knowledge is acting upon what it dictates.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

From the most honourable of knowledge is self-adornment with forbearance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

He who enlivens knowledge does not die.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nothing increases knowledge like acting upon it.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge does not benefit the one who does not understand [it] and forbearance is not useful for the one who does not show clemency.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The basis of knowledge is its dissemination.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The basis of knowledge is acting upon it.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Coming together to study knowledge is the delight of the scholars.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Gatherings of knowledge are a bounty.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

The adornments of a man are his knowledge and his forbearance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How good a companion of forbearance knowledge is!

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How good a companion of faith knowledge is!

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

How good a guide of faith knowledge is!

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Do not make enmity with that which you are ignorant of, for indeed most of knowledge is in that which you don't know.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no provision like knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no honour like knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no nightly conversation partner like knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no treasure more worthwhile than knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no distinction more honourable than knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

There is no guide more successful than knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is not acquired except from its masters.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge does not benefit without [divinely granted] success.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is not attained with physical comfort.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is not purified without piety.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nobody obtains knowledge except the one who lengthens his study.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

One who has no insight, has no knowledge.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Nobody disparages knowledge and its possessors except the foolish, ignorant one.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

A little knowledge removes a lot of ignorance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

People attain superiority through knowledge and intellect, not by wealth and lineage.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge needs action.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge needs forbearance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge needs suppression [of anger].

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Obey knowledge and disobey ignorance, [for by doing this] you will be successful.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

Imam Ali (P.B.U.H):

Knowledge is the most honourable guidance.

Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim

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