All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Islam is not man’s ultimate justification to do as he pleases–it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then...

Ideas can’t die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Your achievements and success are dependent on a well thought through plan of action.

Do not agree to a disagreeable thing spoken by someone you like or disagree to an agreeable thing spoken by someone you dislike.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

With you, I know that what a the future.

It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.

Some care is needed in using Descartes’ argument. “I think, therefore I am” says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day...

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to...

Isn’t language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world’s people? Perhaps, but it’s a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express...

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and...

A dream is only impossible if you allow your thoughts and beliefs to convince you to believe so

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?

the greatest footprint one can ever leave on earth is the footprint of good deeds. Living to leave a great mark on the minds of people before leaving

There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.

The playwright’s rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship’s whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could...

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

Pengorbanan. Kau membuat pengorbanan. Aku membuat pengorbanan. Kita semua membuat pengorbanan. Tapi kau merasa marah atas pengorbanan yang kau berikan. Kau selalu memikirkan apa yang telah kau korbankan. Kau belum mengerti. Pengorbanan adalah bagian kehidupan....

What if deep down inside you…you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness...

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don’t see many people doing it.

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like...

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.