"Such academic pursuits as begin and end in words alone have never been and will never be of any worth."

 

Giacometti

"The Great Being saith: The learned of the day must direct the people to acquire those branches of knowledge which are of use, that both the learned themselves and the generality of mankind may derive benefits therefrom. Such academic pursuits as begin and end in words alone have never been and will never be of any worth."

~Bahá’u’lláh, 

Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 169