All Quotes By Tag: Scholar

“The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.”

“Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.”

“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn’t know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.*توما الحكيم”

“يظن الغمر أن الكتب تهدى … … أخاً فهم لإدراك العلوموما يدرى الجهول بأن فيها … … غوامض حيرت عقل الفهيمإذا رمت العلوم بغير شيخ … … ضللت عن الصراط المستقيموتلتبس الأمور عليك حتى … … تصير أضل من ‘توما الحكيم”

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much–all of it wrong.”