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“Refering to the domain of knowledge, adab means an intellectual discipline (ketertiban budi) which recognizes and acknowledges the hierarchy of knowledge based on the…

— Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are…

— Norbert Wiener

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book learning. He…

— Anonymous

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory…

— John Lubbock

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary…

— Idries Shah

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which…

— George William Curtis

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of…

— Harry Callahan

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of…

— Janice Galloway

I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known…

— Yi-Fu Tuan