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“However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.”
“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”
“Nothin's what it seems, drow!" Bruenor declared. "Nothin'! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? But then ye find that ye know not what ye thought ye knowed! Thought a dog'd be tastin' good - loo...”
“I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, o...”
“If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.”
“If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.”
“Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.”
“Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.”
“THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
“Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.”
“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”
“Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.”
“That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.”
“Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.”
“As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.”
“Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all his knowledge to a thick tome which was kept in a ...”
“In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many a...”
“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 u...”
“Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at ...”
“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental disorder. But I believe it is true. After all, how are we to know what things the...”
