Ahmed > Ahmed's Quotes

“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
― Alhazen

“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them," the first scientist wrote, "but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration and not the sayings of human beings whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of of its content, attack it from every side. he should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.”
― Ibn al-Haytham

“If learning the truth is a scientific's goal, then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads”
― Alhazen, The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3

“فلا ترْضى بمنقَصَة ٍ وَذُلٍّ
وتقنعْ بالقليل منَ الحطام
فَعيْشُكَ تحْتَ ظلّ العزّ يوْماً
ولا تحت المذلَّة ِ ألفَ عام”
― عنترة بن شداد

“The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
― Dorothy Parker

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War