We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Bryant McGillTags: education knowledge patience literacy fighting hard-work never-give-up persistent
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
Bryant McGillTags: kindness knowledge compassion open-mindedness humbleness awareness-and-attitude
Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything.
Richard J. MayburyTags: intelligence knowledge easy understanding smart anything smarts
For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Aldous HuxleyWhat is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.
Nitobe InazōYour eyes are a window into your soul. The way your pupils dilate when you’re happy, and restrict when you’re mad. -Ben
Melisa M. HamlingTags: knowledge
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.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom science truth knowledge learning sufis
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom life knowledge learning sufism process sufis
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 large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom truth love reality knowledge sufism sufis
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
Idries ShahTags: wisdom truth love knowledge way sufis
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