"Man is not to drown himself in..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
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More on Learning
“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”
“The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.”
“Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.”
More on Knowledge
“Just because we are dead does not make us smart.”
“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”