ash-Shaafiee Quotes

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Information is not knowledge.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

All experience is good experience.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the Author of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.