Ibn E Khaldun Quotes

#1. Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Sri Chinmoy

#2. Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

James Carlos Blake

#3. It is fit that the fortune should be on his side, for I think the merit will be all on hers.

Jane Austen

#4. Cervantes, the soldier and adventurer, rose above the prejudices of his class, while Shakespeare never lifted his eyes beyond the narrow horizon of the Court to which he catered. It was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.

William Shakespeare

#5. Every day you have the freedom to pursue what you wish to become.

Steven Redhead

#6. Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.

Gaetano Pesche

#7. For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

Charles Duhigg

#8. Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

Ibn Khaldun

#9. A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness.

Carol S. Dweck

#11. He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.

Ibn Khaldun

#12. Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Ibn Khaldun

#13. Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics - in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.

Adam Hochschild

#14. Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

Robert Payne

#15. Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

Ibn Khaldun

#16. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andy Warhol

#17. Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Ibn Khaldun

#18. Habits are qualities of the soul.

Ibn Khaldun

#19. Yes, yes, my dear sir - and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

Ibn Khaldun

#21. Everything is possible for a self-determined mind.

Daniel Marques

#22. Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

Ibn Khaldun

#23. It is far better to follow instructions than to have no instruction at all.

Nigel Hems

#24. I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

Kiersten White

#25. Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

Ibn Khaldun

#26. The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Ibn Khaldun

#27. Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Ibn Khaldun

#28. Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

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#29. At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

Ibn Khaldun

#30. We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Ibn Khaldun

#31. The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Ibn Khaldun

#32. People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

Ibn Khaldun

#33. All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Ibn Khaldun

#34. Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

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#35. Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Ibn Khaldun

#36. Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?

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