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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them."
"The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory."
"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."
"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
"Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!"
"Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such."
"That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic."
"Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it."
"Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many."
"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."
"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."
"The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor."
"Man is meant for good but designed for evil."
"Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart."
"The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind."
"Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom."
"Women prefer speaking to talking."
"Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!"
"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."
"Time is conscience of the universe."
"Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces."
"The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate."
"Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them."
"A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser."
"Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability."
"Truth is what reconciles thought and experience."
"If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life."
"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."
"There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty."
"Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible, few actually know where it is possible."
"Will is intention favored by emotions."
"Stupidity is not a behavior, it's a religion. One can die for it!"
"Don't quarrel with yourself, you'll only lose!"
"The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions."
"Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them."
"Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty."
"Runner up is champion of the losers."
"Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!"
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