Ali > Ali's Quotes

“الأشياء مثل بقية الأشياء .. لا يمتاز منها
إلا ما نُميِّزه نحنُ بما نكسوه به
من وَهْمٍ وظنٍ واعتقاد.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”
― Mark Twain

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
― Archimedes

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”
― Heinrich Heine

“God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“أنصحك ، ولدي العزيز ، بأن لا نجادل أحدا قط . لا علم أبدا يكسب أو يلقن بالجدل .”
― جان جاك روسو, دين الفطرة