However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
SAADIA peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
More Saadi Quotes
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Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
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Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
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A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
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A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
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Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.
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When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
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