Islamic Scholars Quotes

#1. Contrast this with the use by modern Islamic scholars of Muhammad's decision to marry a six-year-old girl, consummating their marriage when she turned nine, to justify child marriage in Iraq and Yemen today.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#2. Classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.

Jim Al-Khalili

#3. Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as "abrogation" (an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

Hakim Ibn Hizam

#5. Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs!

Me

#6. If she wasn't careful, she might end up convinced that life was worth living, and that would cause her pointless pain, since she would soon have to leave this world anyway.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material ...

Salvatore Ferragamo

#8. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Thomas De Quincey

#9. To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Robert Falcon Scott

#10. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Carl Sagan

#11. And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, we started getting phone calls from government agents.

Betty Hill

#12. We're almost there," I whispered in his ear. "Don't you die, damn it. If you do, I'll never speak to you again.

Katherine Allred

#13. When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

Toni Morrison