Top 100 Farooq Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Farooq

#1. I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Raheel Farooq

#3. Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.

Raheel Farooq

#4. When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.

Raheel Farooq

#5. Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!

Raheel Farooq

#6. A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

Raheel Farooq

#7. Gratitude makes blessings permanent.

Raheel Farooq

#8. Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

Raheel Farooq

#9. Art is what appeals to the a priori.

Raheel Farooq

#10. Men marry. Women wed.

Raheel Farooq

#11. Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

Raheel Farooq

#12. Children are prophets of nature.

Raheel Farooq

#13. Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

Raheel Farooq

#14. Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

Raheel Farooq

#15. The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Raheel Farooq

#16. All true are not truthful.

Raheel Farooq

#17. Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

Raheel Farooq

#18. Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

Raheel Farooq

#19. Learn, or you'll be made to learn.

Raheel Farooq

#20. It's not in the life, it's in the living.

Raheel Farooq

#21. I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.

Raheel Farooq

#22. Life is a goddess in action. Let's be worthy spectators!

Raheel Farooq

#23. We talk what we think but do what we believe.

Raheel Farooq

#24. Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

Raheel Farooq

#25. Teenage crush is like flu. If you find a remedy for it, it lasts for a couple of days. If you don't, it still lasts for a couple of days.

Raheel Farooq

#26. The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

#27. Smokers live faster.

Raheel Farooq

#28. Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Raheel Farooq

#29. Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Raheel Farooq

#30. Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

Raheel Farooq

#31. Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold.

Raheel Farooq

#32. An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.

Raheel Farooq

#33. Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.

Raheel Farooq

#34. The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Raheel Farooq

#35. Colours are nature gone wild.

Raheel Farooq

#36. A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

Raheel Farooq

#37. Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

Raheel Farooq

#38. Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Raheel Farooq

#39. I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

Farooq Abdullah

#40. Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Raheel Farooq

#41. Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

Raheel Farooq

#42. Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

Raheel Farooq

#43. Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Raheel Farooq

#44. Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

Farooq Abdullah

#45. We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

Raheel Farooq

#46. A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

Raheel Farooq

#47. The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

Raheel Farooq

#48. One mistake cannot justify another.

Raheel Farooq

#49. Limits are always extended, never broken.

Raheel Farooq

#50. A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.

Raheel Farooq

#51. The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

Raheel Farooq

#52. Imagination is thinking beyond language.

Raheel Farooq

#53. Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Raheel Farooq

#54. Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Raheel Farooq

#55. What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate.

Raheel Farooq

#56. Every religion has its own gods. The One God has only one religion.

Raheel Farooq

#57. Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

Raheel Farooq

#58. That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

Raheel Farooq

#59. The wise are in no need to know much.

Raheel Farooq

#60. Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Raheel Farooq

#61. If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

Raheel Farooq

#62. The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.

Raheel Farooq

#63. There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

Raheel Farooq

#64. Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Raheel Farooq

#65. Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Raheel Farooq

#66. Things happen when they should, not when they can.

Raheel Farooq

#67. I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

Farooq Abdullah

#68. Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

Raheel Farooq

#69. Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule.

Raheel Farooq

#70. The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.

Raheel Farooq

#71. The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Raheel Farooq

#72. Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

Raheel Farooq

#73. No exceptions to exceptions!

Raheel Farooq

#74. Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is.

Raheel Farooq

#75. Don't call me an egoist.; let an egoist name me so!

Raheel Farooq

#76. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Raheel Farooq

#77. One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

Raheel Farooq

#78. Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

Raheel Farooq

#79. World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

Raheel Farooq

#80. You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it.

Raheel Farooq

#81. Sometimes, the most practical thing to do is to think.

Raheel Farooq

#82. Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.

Raheel Farooq

#83. Women prefer speaking to talking.

Raheel Farooq

#84. With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha

#85. Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Raheel Farooq

#86. Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!

Raheel Farooq

#87. Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker.

Raheel Farooq

#88. If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

Raheel Farooq

#89. Will is intention favored by emotions.

Raheel Farooq

#90. Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Raheel Farooq

#91. The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.

Raheel Farooq

#92. We do wrong because people do it, never realizing that we are the people.

Raheel Farooq

#93. Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

Raheel Farooq

#94. Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq