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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen."
"THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us."
"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
"Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future."
"Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more."
"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."
"Don't quarrel with yourself, you'll only lose!"
"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."
"When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live."
"Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it."
"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
"Women prefer speaking to talking."
"That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic."
"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."
"We talk what we think but do what we believe."
"The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end."
"A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine."
"Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them."
"A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more."
"The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy."
"Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity."
"Impartiality is to accept that we are partial."
"Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality."
"Man is meant for good but designed for evil."
"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."
"The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively."
"Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart."
"Men are different, sheep are all alike."
"Knowledge cannot be maintained without character."
"There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty."
"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!"
"Time is conscience of the universe."
"Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong."
"Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible, few actually know where it is possible."
"Will is intention favored by emotions."
"Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is, it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions."
"The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent."
"Stupidity is not a behavior, it's a religion. One can die for it!"
"The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate."
"Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered."
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