Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Learned without Action


The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man who describes the taste of a food without eating it.


~Imam al-Ghazali~


* in Aquisition of Knowledge, Chapter I, Book of Worship, Volume I, Ihya Ulumiddin

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