Quotation by

Khalil Gibran

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge

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People can only show you ideas or truths that you are already beginning to understand or sense inside yourself. True learning happens when new information connects with what you have already partly realized.

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