Ashraf Ali Thānwī, The road to Allāh, p. 7
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Variant: A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
Bk. 14, Ch. 3 (p. 193)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/492729120418430976 (25 July 2014)
Twitter
“Great among the Great Filipino Scholars.. He was recognized as the foremost scholar of his time.”
Zaide, Gregorio F. 1965. Epifanio de los Santos: Great among the great Filipino scholars. In Great Filipinos in history. 88: 575-581.
BALIW
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
As quoted in Al-Jaami' al-Saghîr by Imam al-Suyuti, where it is declared a "weak Hadith".
Variant translations:
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
The Islamic Review, Vol. 22 (1934), p. 105, edited by Khwajah Kamal al-Din
The ink of scholars will be weighed in the scale with the blood of martyrs.
As quoted in Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology (2004) by John Renard
Sunni Hadith
The alethiometer to Lyra, in Ch. 4 : Trepanning
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)
“Books are the gardens of scholars.”
Abdul Vahed Tamimi, Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim, p. 245.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
