Quotes About Knowledge

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.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

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

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

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

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)

Principles and inelastic rules are the last bastion of the primitive. Principles are guides which substitute for knowledge; rules are drawn up to guide those who do not know. Primitive man has stayed with us for aeons, sustained by the pessimistic belief that, since knowledge is impossible, substitutes must always be employed instead.

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

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.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Humility has to precede instruction.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

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

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.

Knowledge of yourself may involve, if we are learning at the present time, a knowledge of the way of thinking of your society and to realise that you are probably its product, and that this knowledge can be attained in fact by such anthropological and psychological observations made by the Sufis in the course of their teaching how to pursue new and more promising extra perspectives.

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.