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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen."
"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."
"Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!"
"Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions."
"We talk what we think but do what we believe."
"Time is conscience of the universe."
"Children and journalists need what they don't need actually."
"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."
"Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such."
"Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability."
"Truth is what reconciles thought and experience."
"Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many."
"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."
"Man is meant for good but designed for evil."
"The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind."
"Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom."
"Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them."
"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!"
"Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it."
"It's not in the life, it's in the living."
"The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor."
"Will is intention favored by emotions."
"The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate."
"A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser."
"The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles."
"The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions."
"Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty."
"Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart."
"Knowledge cannot be maintained without character."
"Stupidity is not a behavior, it's a religion. One can die for it!"
"Don't quarrel with yourself, you'll only lose!"
"Women prefer speaking to talking."
"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!"
"If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life."
"A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine."
"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."
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