Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is …

Gautama Buddha
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ✨ Gautama Buddha (2013). The Dhammapada, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ✨ Gautama Buddha (2013). The Dhammapada, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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