Ibn Hazm Quotes

#1. If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Ibn Hazm

#2. Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#3. Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

Ibn Hazm

#4. Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Ibn Hazm

#5. And though the years before I die
Stretch out interminably, I
Shall only count my life in truth
As that brief hour of happy youth.

Ibn Hazm

#6. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

Sylvia Plath

#7. What indicates a person's weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Ibn Hazm

#8. It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.

Chris Milk

#9. Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Atul Gawande

#10. We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

Ibn Hazm

#12. Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.

Ibn Hazm

#13. Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

Ibn Hazm

#14. If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Ibn Hazm

#15. We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

Ibn Hazm

#16. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.

Ibn Hazm

#17. Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.

Scott Adams

#18. When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

Ibn Hazm

#19. You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

Paris Hilton

#20. We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#21. Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Ibn Hazm

#22. Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

Ibn Hazm

#23. This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

Action Bronson

#24. Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.

Andrei Cherny

#25. I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

Zayn Malik

#26. When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

Vladimir Kramnik

#27. One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

Ibn Hazm

#28. There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

Ibn Hazm

#29. The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

Tommy Hilfiger