“It's almost as if our society values opinion more than it values knowledge.”
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“The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 3.
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Variant translation: I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the desire to know learning.
