However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise — Saadi
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise — Saadi
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise — Saadi
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise — Saadi
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise — Saadi
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

— Saadi
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