Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3627

If you count up the interest on a loan advanced
in a dream, it will not fill your purse when you
awake. Even so, men whose knowledge is all
words go on babbling; they make their living by
selling knowledge—which no one should sell.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents