"The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition."

Wisdom, Ambition, Study, Strategy, Superficiality

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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"Time is a precious gift."

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

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"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

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"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

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"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Time is a precious gift."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"The most difficult things to grasp are the simplest."

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"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

"Everything depends on the right perspective."