"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself."

-- Francis Quarles

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“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
“[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.”
“Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.”
“If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.”
“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
“If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God”
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.”

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