Quotes About Ibn Sina

#1. In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

#2. (Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects

Chico Buarque

#3. The hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!

Sherry Thomas

#4. When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Alan Dershowitz

#5. The spirit and the soul sustained by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

Giordano Bruno

#7. The ex-pat's life with all its homesickness and loneliness and privileges and perks, with its dizzy ups and miserable downs, was certainly not ordinary.

Brigid Keenan

#8. No longer does human life rise from the earth like a pyramid, broadly and considerately founded upon its own sources. Now it scatters itself out in a reckless horizontal sprawl, like a disorderly city whose suburbs and pavements destroy the fields.

Wendell Berry

#9. Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

Stefan Sagmeister

#10. The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

Tsem Tulku

#11. It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

Geena Davis

#12. I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future.

Michael Gove

#13. Chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

Libba Bray

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

Ibn Hazm

#15. Time is merely a feature of our memories and expectations.

Avicenna

#16. Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

John O'Donohue