Quotes About Averroes

#1. One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

Salman Rushdie

#2. It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.

Bertrand Russell

#3. Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides,

James Joyce

#4. All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.

Averroes

#5. Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Robert Kegan

#6. The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

Chad Knaus

#7. Customer: Do you have any crime books involving speeding fines?

Jen Campbell

#8. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

Averroes

#9. My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

John Updike

#10. Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Averroes

#11. I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

Lissie

#12. Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.

Muriel Spark

#13. Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

Averroes

#14. An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

Averroes

#15. Taken together, the rhythms of real time show how Twitter becomes a place to come together when everyday social bonds are strained. It serves as a fleeting town square for people to share their sorrow, fear and hopes.

Alfred Hermida

#16. You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

Harvey Korman

#17. To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument - nothing more.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. I don't want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult, tough decisions, it's very hard to have the energy to think about things with the right mindset.

Dan Ariely