Quotes About Knowledge

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.