Section: «Quotes»
A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.
Share secrets with those who have no friends, befriend those who have many friends. Avoid someone who is careless, be with someone who is sad.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
The glory is a high rock. The snake gets to it with a creep, but the falcon reaches it with a single wingspan.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If you want to be rich and learn the trade. Wealth drains away with time, but skills do not.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Laugh enthusiastically, genuinely glad when you see a person who has found a good, has done good, worthy of emulation. A good example teaches..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If your knowledge cannot convince you, don't think that someone else will appreciate it. If you don't value your knowledge, how can you expect others..
© Abai Qūnanbaev
By the love of God, the nations are created, and you love them like yourself. Love people as brothers, like freedom, then truth and life are for you.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
The man who challenged a hundred people and misled them is infinitely inferior to the man who guided one person to the way of truth.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
If I were in power, I would cut off the tongue of anyone who claims that a person is irredeemable.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Knowing another's language and culture makes a person equal to those people.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Pray not that you are the son of your father; pride yourself on being the son of a man.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Who labors only for himself is like a cattle that fill his belly. Decent works for mankind.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
Be reasonable, fortify your spirit in the struggle, only the untalented submit to fate.
© Abai Qūnanbaev
The only reason, science, will, conscience elevate man. Only a fool would think otherwise.
© Abai Qūnanbaev