Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (A.S.)

"The person who loves for the sake of God, and detests and despises for the sake of God, and gives for the sake of God, is among those whose faith has achieved completion."

"Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches."

"Indeed, the most terrifically sorry of all the people on the day of resurrection, will be the servant who defines and shows the way of justice to the people, while he himself opposes it."

"The virtue of knowledge is more lovable with Allah than the virtue of worship. The best in your religion is piety."

"The parable of a man greedy of this world is the parable of the silk worm: the more it winds the thread round itself the farther it becomes from salvation, until it dies of grief."

"Goodness to parents, and paying visits to ones own relatives, will ease the accounting on the Day of Judgement."

"Whoevers tongue utters the truth, his practise becomes purified; and the one whose intention is decent and good, his sustenance increases; and whoever adopts good attitude and decent behavior with his…"

"The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers."