Sarip Dol

“Setidak-tidaknya, apa-apa buku baru (yang ditulis) hendaklah mengambil kira salah satu dari tujuh perkara berikut: Melakukan pembaharuan yang tidak pernah dilakukan oleh sesiapa (penulis yang lain), menyempurnakan (tatmim) apa yang kurang dalam sesuatu penulisan, menerangkan (sharh) sesuatu penulisan yang tidak jelas, meringkaskan (talkhis) perbincangan yang bercabang-cabang, menyusun (tartib) mana-mana penulisan yang tidak teratur, menghimpunkan (jam’u) penulisan yang berselerak atau membetulkan (tashih) kesilapan sesebuah penulisan.”
― Shams al-Din al-Babuli

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality.”
― Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud, Filsafat dan Praktik Pendidikan Islam Syed M. Naquib Al-Attas

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach