“A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Shaykh al-Mufīd, Al-Amali, p. 40
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXVIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
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