Uttaradhyayana 11.32

…but say, "O my Lord! advance me in knowledge."

The Master said, "In teaching there should be no distinction of classes."

Contemplate and reflect upon knowledge, and you will become a benefactor to others.

The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

'Now that which is that subtile essence (the root of all), in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.'

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.

Little is known by any one but the spiritual man, / Who has in his heart a touchstone of vital truth. / The others, hovering between two opinions, / Fly towards their nest on a single wing. / Knowledge has two wings, opinion only one wing; / Opinion is weak and lopsided in its flight. …