‘Abdullah ibn Wahb {May Allah have mercy upon him} said:
“That which we conveyed from the manners of Imam Malik was way more than what we learnt from his knowledge.”
{Siyar ‘Alam an-Nubala’, Volume 8 pg. 113}
When Imam Malik embarked on the study of Islamic sciences with a teacher, his mother advised him to “learn from your teacher his manners before you learn from him his knowledge.”