An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
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