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"Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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Personal Development
"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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Personal Development
"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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Personal Development
"They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes"."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
Reality
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
Communication
"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."
Wisdom
"You are not responsible for the actions of others, only for your own."
Life
"No one is without fault. We can only aim to improve."
Growth
"If you are not aware, you will not be aware of your lack of awareness."
Mind
"The quest for knowledge is a process of self-awareness."
Growth
"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."
Experience
"The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it."
Generosity
"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
Spiritual
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