While discussing the necessity of blending intellect and knowledge Murtada Mutahari, in his book Training and education in Islam(pg 255), writes :
"In a famous and excellent quotation, (Francis) Bacon is reported to have said that learned men are of three types. Some are like ants. They always bring grains from outside and store them.
Their minds are like storage rooms. In reality, they are like tape recorders. They record whatever they hear. Others are like silkworms. They always weave their own thread from within themselves. They are not also really learned men
because they do not acquire anything from outside. They want to produce something out of their imagination or illusion. Their impending end is suffocation inside their very own cocoons. The third group consists of the true learned men. They are like honeybees. They extract the juice of flowers and they produce honey out of it."