Wisdom No. 3: Two people endured useless suffering and made futile efforts ...
حکمت شماره ۳: دو کس رنج بیهوده بردند و سعی بیفایده کردند: یکی آن که اندوخت و نخورد و دیگر آن که آموخت و نکرد.
Two people endured useless suffering and made futile efforts: one who accumulated and did not eat (use), and the other who learned and did not act.
دو کس رنج بیهوده بردند و سعی بیفایده کردند: یکی آن که اندوخت و نخورد و دیگر آن که آموخت و نکرد.
However much knowledge you read
If there is no action in you, you are ignorant.
علم چندان که بیشتر خوانی
چون عمل در تو نیست نادانی
He is neither a researcher nor a scholar
A beast of burden with several books on it.
نه محقّق بود نه دانشمند
چارپایی بر او کتابی چند
What knowledge or information does that empty-headed person have?
On whom it is either firewood or a book (burden).
آن تهیمغز را چه علم و خبر
که بر او هیزم است یا دفتر
Wisdom No. 3: Two people endured useless suffering and made futile efforts ...
Book: Gulistan