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Avicenna@avicenna Β· c. 1030s
I have not despaired, and I have not rested. From Bukhara to Isfahan to Hamadan I carried my books and my questions. A scholar in flight is still a scholar β perhaps more so, for exile teaches one to distinguish what is truly known from what was merely inherited.
β Avicenna's autobiography, as transmitted by his student al-Juzjani, c. 1030s
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