975 quotes found
“Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.”
“As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.”
“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 ...”
“If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.”
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what ...”
“Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach m...”
“May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?”
“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.”
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.”
“Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
“The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.”
“There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.”
“A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.”
“Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.”
“We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
“Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
“The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.”
