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Said in the 600s
“If you truly love the life of solitude, you should desire purity of heart more than anything else, and direct to it all your aim and your course. Enquire, learn, read and understand what is this purity of heart, and whence it is acquired, and which passions engender which passions, and by what labours and exertions a man is able to overcome them in the length of the time of his solitude.”
Dadisho Qatraya (died 690) said by 690 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Si los hombres no pueden retener los sonidos en la memoria, estos sonidos se esfumarán, ya que no pueden escribirse». [Nisi enim ab homine memoria teneantur soni, pereunt, quia scribi non possunt].”
Isidoro de Sevilla (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By God! If any of the Arabs other than you were to say that to me, while he was in the same situation as you, I would not leave him without mentioning his mother's being deprived of him. I would say it whoever he might be. But, by God, there is no way for me to mention your mother except by saying the best things possible.”
Al-Hurr ibn Yazid Al-Tamimi (650–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Al-Tabari
“The mind of sentient beings as it is in itself has neither marks nor nature. It is like the ocean, like space. Since it is like space, there are no marks that are not subsumed within it. How could it contain a direction such as east or west? Since it is like the ocean, there is no nature that is preserved.”
Wonhyo (617–686) said by 686 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He went from east to west subduing all who were not obedient; the elephants were not unharnessed, nor the soldiers unhelmeted.”
Xuanzang (602–664) said by 664 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Harsha. Yuan Chawang, quoted in Misra, R. G. (2005). Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders up to 1206 A.D. p.4
Also quoted by: Harsha
“During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you — they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abu Muhammad Fadala ibn 'Ubayd al-Ansari reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, "O the delight of the one who is guided to Islam, has adequate livelihood, and is contented.”
Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crux fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis: Nulla silva talem profert, Fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, Dulce pondus sustinet.”
Venantius Fortunatus (530–609) said by 609 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Lustra sex qui jam peracta. Translated by in The Hymner, 2nd ed. (1905), no. 39
“I shall not now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus … of their suitable discoveries in the science of astronomy—discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians, of their rational system of mathematics, or of their method of calculation which no words can praise strongly enough; I mean the system using nine symbols.”
Severus Sebokht (575–667) said by 667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Severus Sebokht, quoted in The Wonder That Was India, A.L. Basham. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
“Were you not too severe to unlearned hearers? Did you not feed them with meat instead of milk?”
Aidan of Lindisfarne (590–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Holy Spirit descends upon you, who are the Immaculate, to make you purer and give you the virtue of fertility.”
Sophronius of Jerusalem (560–638) said by 638 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“海内存知己， 天涯若比邻。”
Wang Bo (650–676) said by 676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell to Perfect Du", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 37
“संपत्सु महतां चित्तं भवत्युत्पलकोमलं । आपत्सु च महाशैलशिलासंघातकर्कशम् ॥”
Bhartrihari (570–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything has something to undermine it, and every blessing has something to diminish it. The thing that undermines this religion and diminishes this blessing is those who criticize a great deal and those who stab in the back; they show you what you want to see and they conceal that which you dislike. They are wicked like ostiches.”
Uthman (574–656) said by 656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By my father and mother, O Abū 'Abdallāh (i.e., Husayn ibn Ali)! You have exposed yourself to death. May God accept my life for yours!”
Zaynab bint Ali (626–684) said by 684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil's disease.”
John Climacus (579–649) said by 649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”
Khalid ibn al-Walid (586–642) said by 642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This letter was written by Khalid, from his head-quarters in Babylonia, to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III before invading it. (History of the World, Volume IV [Book XII. The Mohammedan Ascendency], page 463, …
“So let us not seek God as if he were far from us, because we can have him within us.”
Columbanus (543–615) said by 615 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The science of calculations with unknowns is the source of the science of calculations with knowns.”
Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Datta and Singh, History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book, Part II, 1962:quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Pr…
“Whoever fasts for a single day in the path of Allah, Allah will place him seventy years away from Hell.”
Abu Said Al-Khudri (612–693) said by 693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source