Ameen Rihani Quotes

• My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

  Ameen Rihani

  Corazón, Simple, Mente

  28 Copiar cita

• When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

  Ameen Rihani

  Depth, Height, Way

  21 Copiar cita

• Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  Ameen Rihani

  Mother, Father, Ignorance

  19 Copiar cita

• Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spirit, Cornerstones

  4 Copiar cita

• The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pioneers, Highways, Nations

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

  11 Copiar cita

• The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

  Ameen Rihani

  Religious, Circles, Helping

  16 Copiar cita

• El corazón cede a la espontaneidad; la mente se pliega a la comprensión.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Yield, Understanding

  11 Copiar cita

• En el desierto te conviertes en un descubridor. Descubres tu alma, que había estado sumergida en vanos afanes, que se había perdido en los vericuetos de la vida moderna. Descubres tu parentesco con la naturaleza y el hombre, evocado por la naturalidad y la amable humanidad de los nativos del desierto, y también descubrirás a Dios.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

  53 Copiar cita

• To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Views, Appreciate

  17 Copiar cita

• Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

  Ameen Rihani

  People, Oppression, Reason

  4 Copiar cita

• I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

  Ameen Rihani

  Giving, Goal, Priorities

  17 Copiar cita

• Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

  Ameen Rihani

  Christian, Religious, Goal

  18 Copiar cita

• Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

  Ameen Rihani

  Cousin, World, Messengers

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

  9 Copiar cita

• Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

  Ameen Rihani

  20 Copiar cita

• The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Ambition, Mean

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press

  16 Copiar cita

• Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

  Ameen Rihani

  Culture, Spirit, Commerce

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

  4 Copiar cita

• Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

  Ameen Rihani

  Light, Three, Source

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

  4 Copiar cita

• Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

  Ameen Rihani

  Hombres, Pensar, Ser

  13 Copiar cita

• My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

  Ameen Rihani

  Eye, Shoes, Walking Shoes

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

  9 Copiar cita

• I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

  Ameen Rihani

  Assuming, Embrace, Renounce

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.215, Syracuse University Press

  4 Copiar cita

• You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

  Ameen Rihani

  Teacher, Honesty, Tolerance

  4 Copiar cita

• Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pride, Virtue, Cease

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.158, Syracuse University Press

  7 Copiar cita

• Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

  Ameen Rihani

  Doe, Matter, Ideals

  4 Copiar cita

• Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Needs, Moral

  7 Copiar cita

• Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Psychology, Soul

  12 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Mijail Naimy

Khalil Gibran

Amin Maalouf

Al-Maʿarri

Arthur Schopenhauer

Paul McCartney