Top 52 Syed Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. If life is a movie, most of us are watching the boring and talked over!
Well, it's still not too late; drop it.. and start afresh with a new and exciting one.
Remember, there's only one climax waiting to be experienced !
Syed Arshad
#4. Every riddle has one perfect answer. For life it is love.
Syed Arshad
#5. Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!
Syed Ather
#6. The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!
Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
#7. Do not show the face of Islam to others; instead show your face as the follower of true Islam representing character, knowledge, tolerance and piety
Syed Ahmad Khan
#8. The only way to be sure is to go out and test your ideas and programmes, and to realise that you will often be wrong. But that is not a bad thing. It leads to progress. This
Matthew Syed
#9. 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
#10. If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.
Syed Arshad
#11. People who think love can happen twice, actually never fell in it the first time.
Syed Arshad
#12. Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!
Syed Arshad
#13. World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.
Matthew Syed
#14. Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
Matthew Syed
#15. Never reject an idea because it will create conflict!
Syed Ather
#17. Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.
Syed Ather
#18. 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
#19. Bush didn't do one thing wrong....
He did everything wrong.
Syed Ali
#20. It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We
Matthew Syed
#21. All human beings posses real age to others who have spend in fact realize to ourselves to be factor from the live life such a naturally holding the remaining rest will be count that who have command of all human beings those ourselves will be real age which are going on.
Syed Afroz Alam
#22. If it has a reason, it's definitely not love.
Syed Arshad
#23. When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.
Matthew Syed
#24. 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
#25. If you do not waste, you do not want.
Syed Ather
#28. It is your own will to understand things, that makes you sensible.Education is just a fair chance.
Syed Arshad
#29. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#30. Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
Syed Arshad
#31. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
Matthew Syed
#32. My heart always knew, you're the dew, my dry soul would never adieu.. but I still don't know why I let you go and waited all my life just for you.
Syed Arshad
#33. It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it.
Matthew Syed
#34. 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
#35. I am a pillar. I know. I am this broken pillar of this basement.
Amaan Ahmad
#36. I am a hair-lock; I am floating in the gutters to meet the rubber-band.
Amaan Ahmad
#37. Creativity is, in many respects, a response.
Matthew Syed
#38. 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
#39. Life Life Life Life; it fascinates me, it intoxicates me, it upsets me and it surprises me. However, I love Life because I know it has a meaning in whatever consequences it puts us in. At the end of the day Life is the most beautiful teacher and I want to Romance her!
Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
#41. Failure is rich in learning opportunities for a simple reason: in many of its guises, it represents a violation of expectation.6 It is showing us that the world is in some sense different from the way we imagined it to be.
Matthew Syed
#42. The world of man in the world of nature, cannot be change without physical appearance leads to positive possess by the initial human nature and could be change by habits of man.
Syed Afroz Alam
#43. A child came out of my eyes some moments ago. My head is on fire. He laughed as he came out and I can still see him across that wall, crawling and laughing. I sometimes try to reach it but it runs away from me.
Amaan Ahmad
#44. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.
Karen L. Syed
#45. Well, it doesn't work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.
Matthew Syed
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Time has wings it is flying but it has no shape, no colour ,no dimension so it is invisible.
Syed Afroz Alam
#49. The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us.
Matthew Syed
#50. It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.
Syed Arshad
#51. Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.
Matthew Syed
