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“«ای بار خدا به حق هستی/شش چیز مرا مدد فرستی/ایمان و امان و تن درستی/فتح و فرج و فراخ‌دستی.»”
ابوسعید ابوالخیر (967–1049) said by 1049 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«مردم را در سه جای بیازمایند: اول چون با زن بیگانه در خلوت باشند و باهم‌دیگر الفت دارند بنگر تا به‌سلامت می‌توانند بود یا نه؟ دو چون خشم گرفت بنگر که خود را نگاه می‌تواند داشت یا نه؟ سوم چون بر مال دیگران دست یابد و بر آن قادر باشد بنگر که دست از آن می‌تواند داشت یا نه؟»”
ابواسحاق کازرونی (963–1035) said by 1035 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«دشمن دوست چون تواند بود.»”
ابوالفضل بیهقی (995–1077) said by 1077 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«خوشا آنون که سر از پا نذونند// میان شعله خشک و تر نذونند// کنشت و کعبه و بت‌خانه و دی// سرایی خالی از دلبر نذونند»”
باباطاهر (947–1032) said by 1032 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.
“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
“«دانش جو نباید به همان دانشی که در دست دارد، قانع باشد؛ زیرا که قناعت در آن باعث زهد می‌گردد و زهدِ علمی برابر است با ترکِ علم، و ترکِ علم همان نادانی است.»”
ابوالحسن ماوردی (974–1058) said by 1058 at the latest wikiquote:fa, 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
“«اگر مرگ داد است بیداد چیست؟// ز داد این همه بانگ و فریاد چیست؟»”
فردوسی (940–1020) said by 1020 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«شب از حمله روز گردد ستوه// شود پر زاغش چو پر خروه».”
عنصری بلخی (970–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But if I have erred in anything, I gladly come before the teaching authority of Peter.”
Peter Damian (1007–1072) first seen 1059 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 65:26. To Hildebrand, "archdeacon and immobile pillar of the Apostolic See," Dec. 1059. Op. Cit., p. 39.
“A scene like Paradise! 'Tis not Farkhar Yet all the splendour of Farkhar is there. Kisses of loyal kings imprint the earth, Faces of fair youths fill with light the air. Then look how gold and silver pleiades Bestud the rolling sky of scimitars, And how, like dagger's peral-encrusted haft, Each baldrick shows its blazonry of stars!”
Unsuri (970–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have seen men who had studied the sciences, who knew the messages of the Prophets, the recommendations of the wise, and yet who surpassed the most evil men in their worse deeds, and their depravation. This is very frequent, and so I have understood that these two moral attitudes were favours granted or denied by the Most High.”
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“暗きより暗き道にぞ入りぬべき遙かに照らせ山の端の月”
Izumi Shikibu (976–1033) said by 1033 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Merie sungen the muneches binnen Ely Tha Cnut Ching rew there by: Roweth, cnihtes, noer the lant, And here we thes muneches saeng.”
Cnut (994–1035) said by 1035 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cnut is said to have composed this song on hearing the music of Ely Abbey, as he was sailing by in a boat. This one verse of that song has been preserved by a monk of Ely in the Historia Eliensis (c. 1166). Reported in …
“Good deeds stand tall like a green pine, evil deeds bloom like flowers; The pine is not as brilliant as the flowers, it seems. When the frost comes, the pine will still stand tall, While the flowers, withered, can be seen no more”
Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088) said by 1088 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«الهی! می‌بینی و می‌دانی و برآوردن می‌توانی.»”
خواجه عبدالله انصاری (1006–1089) said by 1089 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# To know the emptiness of objects is to know emptiness free of appearance and free of coverings. That is the Middle Way from which the "subsequent" or conventional has been purged.”
Marpa Lotsawa (1012–1097) said by 1097 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Madhyamasatka of Metri,The Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Adyar. Library Bulletin vol. 25, pp. 539-49. (1961)
“I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does—he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.”
Ferdowsi (940–1020) said by 1020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“و اندر تورات است که چون خدای تعالی بنده ای را دوست دارد، نوحه گری اندر دلش به پای کند و چون بنده را دشمن دارد، مُطربی اندر دلش به پای کند.”
ابوالقاسم قشیری (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ostentatious man purposely acts in such a way as to win popularity, while the Malàmatí purposely acts in such a way that the people reject him. Both have their thoughts fixed on mankind and do not pass beyond that sphere.”
Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«بر یخ بنویس چون کند وعده// گفتار محال و قول خامش را»”
ناصرخسرو (1004–1088) said by 1088 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source