Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
Saadi in Gulistan (The Rose Garden) (1258)
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1 Dan Costinas said on 03 April 2013: |
| Or: «Whosoever acquired knowledge, and did not practise it, resembleth him who ploughed, but did not sow.» ~ in Francis Gladwin's translation (1865) |