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“When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.”

Helping Share Gains Scholar

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.”

Men Loses He Man Gains Scholar Tao

Author:Laozi

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.”

Needs Persons Said Speak Hours Risk Gains Edges Scholar Heresy

Book:What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Book Might Study Information Draws Research Gains Stores Pursuit Conclusion Scholar Cerebral

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.”

Lasts Artist Worst Integrity Gains Depth Scholar Deliberate Falsification Personal Gain

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers