Quotes About Learning

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Teaching One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Patience is the food of understanding.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Humility has to precede instruction.

El sufismo es experiencial. Las capacidades, incluso aquellas necesarias para aprender más allá de cierto punto, son provocadas por los Sufis, por los propios esfuerzos y lo que resulta de ellos, y por un elemento al cual los Sufis se refieren como lo Divino.

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.

Eruditos de Oriente y Occidente consagraron heroicamente sus existencias profesionales a poner a disposición del público el material literario y filosófico sufi, utilizando para ello sus propias disciplinas. En muchos casos hicieron referencia a la insistencia de los propios sufis en que el camino de los sufis no puede ser comprendido valiéndose del intelecto o mediante el común aprendizaje a través de libros.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.