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“What does one dream of when the dream has been achieved?”
― Lesley Hazleton, The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
― Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
― Blaise Pascal

“The modern boy and girl are certainly taught more subjects—but does that always mean that they actually know more?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning

“THE history of mathematics cannot with certainty be traced back to any school or period before that of the Ionian Greeks.”
― W.W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

“(“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”).”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially.… In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him.… He is always and everywhere.… He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“James was generous with his time to any friend who needed it—as well as to some, like Lawson, who did not! When one friend had eye trouble and could not read, James spent an hour each evening reading out his bookwork for the next day. He bucked up fellow students when they were depressed and on several occasions nursed others who were sick. He helped freshmen who were having trouble with their studies. He also found time to keep up a lively correspondence with his father, Aunt Jane, Lewis Campbell and others.”
― Basil Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

“Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...”
― Basil Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

“من هوان نفسك عليك وإهانة جنسك في الناس أن تتكلم بغير لغتك في بلدك وبين قومك من غير ضرورة ولا مناسبة , فإن ذلك إن دل على شيء فإنما يدل على عدم استقلالك في خليقتك وعقيدتك ونمط تفكيرك وأسلوب عملك .. فـ يا قومنا؛ إن لغة المرء تاريخه وذاته , فالغض منها غض منه , والتفضيل عليها تفضيل عليه .. ولا يرضى لنفسه الضعة والصغار إل...ا من هان على نفسه وكان من العاجزين”
― أحمد حسن الزيات

“حدث أن سألني شاب مغرور: أتعرف الله بدليل عقلي؟
فقلت له وأنا أتضاحك: أعرفه عن خبرة حسية ..
قال: ما معنى خبرة حسية؟

قلت: إن اللقيط يعرف بالدليل العقلي أن له أبًا، وإن كان لم يره .. لكن الابن الشرعي لايحتاج إلى هذا الاستدلال، لأنه مغمور بحنان أبيه وإحسانه يحسهما صباحًا ومساء، إنه يعرف أباه عن خبرة حسية، كما عبرت لك ..

إنني سألت الله أمورًا لا يقدر عليها إلا هو، وأجابني تبارك اسمه إلى ما طلبت، فكيف لا أعرفه بعد ؟”
― محمد الغزالي, فن الذكر والدعاء عند خاتم الأنبياء