“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”
Source: Bumi Manusia
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer 7
Indonesian writer 1925–2006Related quotes

The Captive Mind (1953)
Context: Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)

"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.

“To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.”
As quoted in Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom : A Collection of 10,000 Powerful Quotations (2003) by Andy Zubko, p. 184