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book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Knowledge

  1. Too much knowledge is also a dangerous thing. You end up forming no opinion about anything.
  2. Rectitude in the pursuit of knowledge is willingness to doubt one’s conclusions.
  3. Insight is attained by collating knowledge through surges of inspiration and flashes of imagination.
  4. It is easy to ask difficult questions but sometimes hard to answer even simple ones, if you know the meaning of things.
  5. Those who have yearning to delve deep for knowledge are destined to be sadly wise.
  6. A definition does not define an idea definitely.
  7. If you start thinking in the terms of how and why, you will not know certitude. Knowledge creates doubt.
  8. Knowledge is ignorance ascertained.
  9. The process of knowledge starts with believing, so as to understand why one should not believe.
  10. First assimilate, then aspire.
  11. Complex questions often have simple solutions.
  12. The quest for knowledge is unremitting. Even the waters in a bay will get stale if fresh currents of the sea do not flow into it.
  13. Curious learning is as much important as formal skills for material progress. It imparts charm to the pursuit of knowledge.
  14. Skill enables us to make a living and knowledge prepares us to make a life.
  15. For some, knowing profoundly what really matters in life is much more significant than learning what matters in making money abundantly.
  16. When hardly mature in youth, one feels that one kn<:>ws everything that matters. When one grows in experience and faces reality, one comes to realize that it is foolhardy to be sure of anything. Age takes away the adventure and exuberance to jump to the conclusion that utopia is possible.
  17. Leaming is acquiring skills for the labour oflife. Knowledge is obtaining wisdom for the love oflife.
  18. Knowledge creates more questions than it can answer because nothing is perfectly knowable. Thirst of man in the search of knowledge is unending.
  19. “Know thyself1”. Since I came to know this aphorism of Socrates in youth, it has isolated me from the overly religious society and given me the joy of emancipation in self-discovery.
  20. Science discovers the wonders of nature, because it wonders about nature .
  21. Freed om of thought will make you know the world and freedom of speech will expose you its ire and prejudice. But knowing without expression is smothering. Even a hermit descends from the heights of meditation to speak.
  22. If you know how a thing exists, it does not mean you know why a thing exists. Expansion in knowledge mystifies life and phenomena more than it clarifies them .
  23. If a mystery is incomprehensible, it is incomprehensible to every mind without exception, as a requirement of logical consistency.
  24. It is when you really know that you come to know that you know nothing.
  25. People, who know so little, will tell you so much, until they are obliged to answer precise questions – and then they get annoyed.
  26. I think about the mystery of existence, but I do not like the findings so far.
  27. The more we advance in know ledge, the more we discover our ignorance.
  28. The best way to appear leaned is to express abstract ideas in outre words and neglect to provide references.
  29. Ignorance is not to know that it is not worth knowing, like unverified beliefs.
  30. Forming an uninformed opinion about a subject is ignorance.

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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.

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Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

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