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• “Twas in Religion that he gloried by whom till the Day of Judgement The Arabs excel the Persians in glory. He who lacks religion is ignoble and mean, Though Feridun be his maternal, and Jamshid his paternal uncle.”

  Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088) said by 1088 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: translated by Edward. G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 1909, p.268

• “But even when the Muslim position was not that strong, say, during Mahmud’s son Ibrahim’s campaign in Hindustan when “a fierce struggle ensued, but Ibrahim at length gained victory, and slew many of them. Those who escaped fled into the jungles. Nearly 100,000 of their women and children were taken prisoners…”

  Ibrahim of Ghazna (1032–1099) said by 1099 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3 quoting Maulana Ahmad, Tarikh-i-Alfi, E.D., V, 163; Farishtah, I, 49.

• “A Sufi does not need the light of the sun or the moon, for the Effulgence of the Lord is with him and it is brighter than that of all satellites.”

  Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963–1033) said by 1033 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “وَمن عيوبها أَن يُطِيع وَلَا يجد لطاعته لَذَّة ذَلِك لشوب طَاعَته بالرياء وَقلة إخلاصه فِي ذَلِك أَو ترك سنة من السّنَن.”

  أبو عبد الرحمن السلمي النيسابوري (937–1021) said by 1021 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Without mind, without meditation, without analysis, without practice, without the will, let it all be so.”

  Tilopa (988–1069) said by 1069 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Six Precepts of Tilopa, quoted in A.S. Kline's Like Water or Clouds - The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao (1947)

• “و أعلم أن العلم کثیر، والعمر قصیر، ولیس تعلم کل العلوم، مثل علم النجوم و الطب و علم الحساب و الصناعات البدیعة وما یشبه ھذا، فریضة علی الناس، الا بالقدر الذی یتعلق بالشریعة من کل من ھذہ العلوم، فالنجوم لمعرفة الوقت فی اللیل، والطب للاحتماء، والحساب للفرائض و مدۃ الحیض، وما یشبه، ففرائض العلم بقدر ما یصح به العمل۔”

  الهجويري (1009–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the name of God, who gives life and mind to humans. Human thoughts cannot go higher than Him or fully understand Him.”

  Ferdowsi (940–1020) said by 1020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You have heard and know the nobleness of Indians - they fear not death or destruction… In affairs of honour and renown we would place ourselves upon the fire like roast meat, and upon the dagger like the sunrays.”

  Jayapala (964–1001) said by 1001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Message to Subuktigin, in Utbi, Kitab Yamini. quoted in Misra, R. G. (2005). Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders up to 1206 A.D. p.41

• “See — I have taken England with both my hands.”

  William I of England (1028–1087) first seen 1066 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remark after he stepped off his ship on the coast of England and fell into the sand (28 September 1066), as quoted in LIFE magazine, Vol. 40, No. 13 (26 March 1956), p. 85

• “The first nation (to have cultivated science) is India. This is a powerful nation having a large population, and a rich kingdom (possession). India is known for the wisdom of its people. Over many centuries, all the kings of the past have recognized the ability of the Indians in all the branches of knowledge.”

  Said al-Andalusi (1029–1070) said by 1070 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “لا أستطيع بعد أن أتحمل طغيان النصارى الأوغاد (بعد أن أتاه وفد ابن سايب من ألفونسو يطلب منه الجزية ويحاول إهانته).”

  المعتمد بن عباد (1040–1095) said by 1095 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Stillness is an undisturbed state of the intellect,”

  Niketas Stethatos (1000–1090) said by 1090 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I have not been able to write well, I have at any rate written truthfully, using as authorities those who are best informed about the subject.”

  Adam of Bremen (1100–1085) said by 1085 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem; propterea morior in exilio.”

  Pope Gregory VII (1020–1085) said by 1085 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Last words, as quoted in Joseph Priestley A General History of the Christian Church, vol. 1 (1802), p. 361

• “Whosoever seeks the truth will not proceed by studying the writings of his predecessors and by simply accepting his own good opinion of them. Whosoever studies works of science must, if he wants to find the truth, transform himself into a critic of everything he reads. He must examine tests and explanations with the greatest precision and question them from all angles and aspects.”

  Alhazen (965–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Arrogance cannot bear to see itself scorned and humility held in honor.”

  Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022) said by 1022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sanctum Satanum meum.”

  Peter Damian (1007–1072) first seen 1070 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Of Pope Gregory VII, in a letter (c. 1070) to Pope Alexander II and Cardinal Archdeacon Hildebrand, Ep. 1. I. ep. 16. T. I. f. 16.

• “As CM Yogi Adityanath declared, "History may have done injustice to him (Maharaja Suheldev), but this double-engine government will not allow it".”

  Suhaldev (995–1050) said by 1050 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “كتب على قبره:"هذا ما جناه عليّ أبي وما جنيت على أحد”

  أبو العلاء المعري (973–1057) said by 1057 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “زيادة المرء في دنياه نقصان وربحه غير محض الخير خسران”

  Abu al-Fath al-Busti (942–1010) said by 1010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagion of evil, and free from all secular power.”

  Pope Urban II (1035–1099) first seen 1050 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Decree, also quoted in Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1991), p. 125

• “The heart in which love and compassion for all living beings resides, can have no room for seeking after personal pleasures. O friend, take care to do no harm to any living creature; to hurt his creation is to forget the Creator.”

  Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1089) said by 1089 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Tales of the Mystic East: An Anthology of Mystic and Moral Tales Taken from the Teachings of the Saints (, 1997), p. 208