Top 19 Naquib Al Attas Quotes
#1. But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#2. If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.
Rachel Hartman
#3. Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) ... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#5. What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
Barbara W. Tuchman
#6. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
Albert Einstein
#8. Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to 'repay' his debt, 'his own consciousness' of the fact 'that he is himself the very substance' of debt, so must he 'repay' with himself, so must he 'return' himself to Him Who owns him absolutely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#9. To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#10. A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
#11. Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.
Robert Greene
#13. Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.
John Williams
#14. The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#15. Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#16. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#17. Without judging anyone, let us love everyone like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#19. Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.
Rita Zahara