{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw22.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw22.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw22.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nIgnorance is the greatest poverty.\nIgnorance is death in life.\nThere is no evil so great as ignorance.\nFolly is an incurable disease.\nA foolish man is like an old garment, which if you patch it in one place becomes rent in many other places.\nIt is just as allowable to blame a blind man for want of sight as to blame a fool for his folly.\nTo bear the folly of a fool is indeed a great hardship.\nThe best way to treat a fool is to shun him.\nThe fool is an enemy to himself\u2014how can he then be a friend to others?\nAn ignorant man is highly favoured, for he casts away the burden of life, and does not vex his soul with thoughts of time and eternity.\nThe most effectual preacher to a man is himself. A man never turns away from his passions unless the rebuke comes from himself to himself.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Ignorance, Folly","type":"page"}