Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
Interpretation
The pursuit of knowledge requires effort and perseverance through challenges.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively seeking knowledge and the willingness to endure difficulties in the process. It suggests that understanding and wisdom are not simply granted but must be earned through rigorous inquiry and perseverance, and those who shy away from the challenges of seeking knowledge should not expect to gain its rewards.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a classroom to inspire students to embrace challenges in their learning.
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.
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