Lesson one hundred twenty nine :Place of knowledge and wisdom

Imam Kazem( A. S. )says:

انَّ الزَّرْعَ يَنْبُتُ فِى السَّهْلِ وَ لايَنْبُتُ فِى الصَّفا فَكَذلِكَ الْحِكْمَةُ تَعْمُرُ فِى قَلْبِ الْمُتَواضِعِ وَ لا تَعْمُرُ فى قَلْبِ الْمُتَكَبِّرِ الْجَبّارِ!

Translation

Cultivation grows on the soft lands, not on the stones! And also knowledge and wisdom sprout on the heart of modest people, not on the heart of unjust arrogants!.

Brief description

First step in acquiring knowledge is humility, humility towards truth, humility towards teacher, and anyone who knows more than us, and could teach us something.

For this reason, ignorance and arrogance are usually accompanied with each other. Arrogants do not accept to confess to ignorance, and even if a reality is not in concordance with their spirit of their pride and arrogance, not only they deny it, but also oppose it. They do not accept the truth from their coordinates or their subjects and often remain in compound ignorance.