“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”

“Who is the wrong person to criticise?You”

“Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.”

“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.”

“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”