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• “That Muslim is not praiseworthy who worships and keeps fasts, but he is to be praised in whose scroll of destiny no sin is recorded during the course of a lifetime. And when that stage is reached he fears God and maintains humility.”

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

• “Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”

  Avicenna (980–1037) said by 1037 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Pursuit of Learning in the Islamic World, 610-2003 (2006), by Hunt Janin, p. 75.

• “Sciences are like powerful drugs, which suit the strong and exhaust the weak. Likewise, complex sciences enrich a vigorous mind, and keep it off evil, but exhaust the mediocre mind.”

  Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed.”

  Shmuel HaNagid (993–1056) said by 1056 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ben Mishle, 11C, #8, as quoted in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1996)

• “I am very much worried about the prisoners. Their large numbers and the condition of prisons make it certain that there must be many ailing persons among them. Therefore, I am of the opinion that they must have their own doctors who should examine them every day and give them, where necessary, medicines and decoctions. Such doctors should visit all prisons and treat the sick prisoners there.”

  Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal (940–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “I counsel you, O Kings of Earth, to cease not Seeking good name for well-doing and right Spending your 'white' and 'red' to purchase honour, Which shall not wane with change of 'black' and 'white': These are the lasting spoils of Mahmud's prowess, Which spoils we share when we his praise indite.”

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

• “为天地立心，为生民立命，为往圣继绝学，为万世开太平。”

  Zhang Zai (1020–1077) said by 1077 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Complete Works of Master Zhang, "Supplements to Reflections on Things at Hand", as quoted in Wang Chunyong's Famous Chinese Sayings Quoted by Wen Jiabao, trans. Chan Sin-wai (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2009), p. 10

• “天下之事，其可忧者甚众，而当世之患，莫大于人不能言与不肯言，而甚者或不敢言也。”

  曾鞏 (1019–1083) said by 1083 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “落尽梨花春又了。满地残阳，翠色和烟老。”

  梅堯臣 (1002–1060) said by 1060 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “送春春去几时回？临晚镜，伤流景，往事后期空记省。”

  张先 (990–1078) said by 1078 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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.

• “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

• “توانا بود هر که دانا بود”

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

  Also quoted by: Persian proverb (persian)

• “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)

• “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

• “Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; of one wing fails its flights fails and if both fails, it dies.”

  Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “今日割五城，明日割十城，然後得一夕安寢。起視四境，而秦兵又至矣。”

  蘇洵 (1009–1066) said by 1066 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “楼高目断，天遥云黯，只堪憔悴。”

  晏殊 (991–1055) said by 1055 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “此去经年，应是良辰好景虚设。便纵有千种风情，更与何人说？”

  柳永 (987–1053) said by 1053 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “局合龍蛇成陣闘，刧殘鴻鴈破行飛。”

  邵雍 (1011–1077) said by 1077 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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

• “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