Akbar S. Ahmed Quotes

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Akbar S. Ahmed

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Children
  • Born

• Whatever interests is interesting.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Interesting
  • Interest

• That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Body
  • Distance
  • Vacuum

• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Womb

• Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

  

  Will Durant
  • Hands
  • Property
  • Grandchildren

• The conditions at Baxter do need to be improved and when we have finished the job, I think everybody will be very proud of it, ... It will never be a fun place to be but it will be very good.

  

  Amanda Vanstone
  • Conditions
  • Finished
  • Improved

• Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

  

  Cary Middlecoff
  • Come
  • Concentrate
  • Hitting

• THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she’d put to use at the moment.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Lying
  • Skills
  • Smuggling

• For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.

  

  William Romaine
  • Children
  • Song
  • Meditation

• Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

  

  Willis Harman
  • Believe
  • Creativity
  • Humans

• The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Mean
  • Environment

• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Coffee
  • Remembered
  • Ink

• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

  

  Akbar S. Ahmed
  • Scholar
  • Martyr
  • Ink