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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms."
"But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them."
"Limits are always extended, never broken."
"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"
"Thoughts are ghosts of emotions."
"If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality."
"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
"Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world."
"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.'But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.'Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want."
"Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy."
"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles."
"Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!"
"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible."
"I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal."
"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."
"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men."
"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
"Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications."
"We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program."
"Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is, it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions."
"Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it."
"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."
"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."
"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."
"Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them."
"The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory."
"A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more."
"The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively."
"Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka!"
"Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves."
"Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces."
"The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue."
"That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic."
"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."
"Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong."
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