Rashid > Rashid's Quotes

“We passed through forests of fire, forded rivers of light and forged dark seas and mountains of snow and ice.
Each crossing took us thousands of years, though it seemed no more than the blink of an eye.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“ما أقسى أن يكون الواعظ لصا وأن يكون الكذاب داعية”
― ثروت الخرباوي, سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People

“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from the narrative laid down at the inception of the nation can be accepted only when consternation about their implications is abated. This can happen when the current collective identity begins to be taken for granted and ceases to be something anxiously and nostalgically clings to a mythical past, when identity becomes the basis for living and not its purpose - that is when historiographic change can take place.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People

“Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.”
― Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

“In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a portion of their gorgeous legs; as a result, the men of those cities walk about with great difficulty, embarrassed and in extreme pain, because, you see, their front sides are always erect and this fact naturally leads to the paralysis of their society. Undoubtedly, this is why each day the Frank infidel surrenders another fortress to us Ottomans.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status”
― Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.”
― Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

“The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.”
― Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“أكتشفت ان الأقل إيلاما هو ان تقرر أن الشيء بكامله زائف عن أن تتعذب بالشكوك حول أي جزء منه زائف وأي جزء هو الصادق”
― يوكيو ميشيما, Confessions of a Mask

“مقياس قوة المرأة هو درجة العذاب التي يمكن أن تعافب بها عشيقها”
― يوكيو ميشيما, Confessions of a Mask

“Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“على وجهي الاصفر .. خريفٍ طال ..
وسلال من رذاذ وملح ..
وفي صدري حجارة نسيوها بحاره ..
مروا علي فـ يوم ..
وقالوا تعال معنا .. وما كان يجمعنا ..
إلا الضياع والريح ..

راجع من الايام .. من الاحلام ..
ومن الف سناره .. مغروسة بقلبي ..
لقيت لي بشارة .. ما اغلى عطا ربي ..
أثر العمر ساره .. وموج البحر ساره ..
وكل المدى ساره ..
سافرت كل العمر .. وراجع احب سارة ..”
― بدر بن عبدالمحسن

“The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.”
― Edward O. Wilson

“The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“الحب لا يمكن تفسيره، ولا يمكن إلا معايشته واختباره. ومع أن الحب لا يمكن تفسيره فهو يفسر كل شيء.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“كما يحتاج الصلصال إلى حرارة عالية ليشتد، فالحب لا يكتمل إلا بالألم.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“لا يوجد زمن جميل.. أيام زمان كانت أكثر بشاعة من الآن.أنت الذي كنت جميلاً بشبابك ونقائك واقبالك على الحياة.”
― أسامة غريب

“كلما ازدادت ثقافة المرء، ازداد بؤسه وشقاؤه”
― أنطون تشيخوف

“so few in reality are the true necessities of man”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“أن الفقهاء لما لم يكونوا في صدد تغيير العالم والمجتمع فانهم لم يروا هذه التحولات والتغييرات الواقعة في العالم المعاصر ولم يأخذوها بنظر الأعتبار في آرائهم وفتاويهم الفقهية، وكأنهم تصوروا ان جميع المجتمعات البشرية ما هي الا صورة مكبرة عن المجتمع العربي في صدر الإسلام، ولذلك ذهبواالى تطبيق تلك الأحكام الشرعية الواردة في اجواء عصر النزول على هذه المجتمعات المعاصرة.”
― Abdolkarim Soroush, الدين العلماني