Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes About Wealth
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Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
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Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
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There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
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No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
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Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
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