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Said in the 1100s
“This celebrated island, formerly called Albion, afterwards Britain, and now England.”
Henry of Huntingdon (1080–1160) said by 1160 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, translated by Thomas Forester, The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853) p. 2
“I establish a firm peace in all my kingdom, and I order that this peace shall henceforth be kept.”
Henry I of England (1068–1135) first seen 1042 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coronation Charter (5 August 1100), quoted in English Historical Documents, Vol. II. 1042–1189, eds. David C. Douglas and George W. Greenaway (1953), p. 402
“We came down on them like a flood, We went out among their cities, We tore down the idol-temples, We shat on the Buddha's head!”
Mahmud al-Kashgari (1029–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Mahmud al-Kashgari in : Elverskog, Johan (2010). Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4237-9.
“Eretz Yisrael is higher than all the countries.”
Rashi (1040–1105) said by 1105 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not will anything which is not the will of Allah.”
Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) said by 1166 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fides quaerens intellectum”
Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) first seen 1078 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Original title of the Proslogion (1078)
“What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.”
Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 (1999), Wm. Theodore De Bary & Irene Bloom
“Harsha was a fellow-traveller: not yet a full convert to Islam (he still ate pork), but quite adapted to the Islamic ways, for "he ever fostered with money the Turks, who were his centurions".... This behaviour was so un-Hindu and so characteristically Islamic that Kalhana reports: "In the village, the town or in Srinagara there was not one temple which was not despoiled by the Turk king Harsha.”
Harsha of Kashmir (1050–1101) first seen 1095 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Raiatarangini 7:1095; translation by R.S. Pandit, quoted in Elst, K. (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism.
“The bird that sings the song of pain is love The courier who knows the tongue of the Unseen is love The existence that call you to nonexistence is love And that which redeems you from you is love”
Khaqani (1121–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consume according to your requirements and contribute the rest to the society through Dasoha.”
Basava (1134–1196) said by 1196 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.”
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) said by 1142 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Abelardian Doctrine Of The Atonement" (1892), published in Doctrine and Development : University Sermons (1898) by Hastings Rashdall, p. 138
“O venerable father Bernard, I lay my claim before you, for, highly honored by God, you bring fear to the immoral foolishness of this world and, in your intense zeal and burning love for the Son of God, gather men [cf. Luke 5.10] into Christ's army to fight under the banner of the cross against pagan savagery. I beseech you in the name of the Living God to give heed to my queries.”
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) first seen 1146 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1146-47
“Where a woman has loved most, there she will soonest avenge herself.”
Thomas of Britain (1200–1150) said by 1150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tristan (c. 1160) sec. 10 (tr. A. T. Hatto, 1960)
“There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.”
Thomas Becket (1119–1171) said by 1171 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was one of the first explorers of the human heart, and is therefore rightly to be numbered among the fathers of the novel of sentiment.”
Chrétien de Troyes (1135–1181) said by 1181 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. S. Lewis The Allegory of Love (Oxford, [1936] 1975), ch. 1, p. 29.
“He knows nothing about crimes, or else he weighs them in unjust balances.”
William II of England (died 1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1882), p. 407
“People take pride on the basis of wealth and are looked down on the basis of poverty.”
Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1117–1197) said by 1197 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind, John R. Sommerfeldt, Newman Press (2004) , p. 67
“We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions.”
Richard I of England (1157–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard on King Philip II of France's early departure from the Third Crusade; Quoted in Christopher Tyerman, God's War: A New History of the Crusades, Harvard University Press, 2006, (p.455). (from primary source)
“When asked about the best conditions for learning, a scholar replied: “A humble spirit, commitment to research, a quiet life, silent inquiry, poverty, a foreign land; these circumstances make it easier to overcome the difficulties encountered during one's studies”. :*From Didascalicon.”
Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whirling his sword, like a scythe mowing down the green grass, corpses lay heaped round him, like the trees of a dense forest uptorn by the wind.”
Goffredo Malaterra (1100–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 2, ch. 30, in Script. Rer. Italicarum, vol. 5, p. 567. Paraphrased in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (1882), p. 197. "In Sicily, Roger, fighting fifty thousand Saracens at the head of onl…
“A grievous crime indeed against religion has been committed by the man who imagines that Islam is defended by the denial of the mathematical sciences.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1056–1111) said by 1111 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sum of 13 and 8 is twenty-one, which is the number of meters with 7 matras.”
Hemachandra (1088–1172) said by 1172 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source