No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.