Abu Rayhan al-Biruni famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

  • It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

  • The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

  • The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

  • When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  • Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

  • It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

  • He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  • Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

  • The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

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