Hakim ibn Hizam quotes

“If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.”
-- Hakim ibn Hizam

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.”

“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord”

“I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.”

“We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.”

“To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.”

“Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.”

“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”

“I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.”

“As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso