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“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.
“On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude correction, and therefrom find the time (since sunrise or sunset), in ghatis, of rising or setting of the Moon; and having done this, note the corresponding time in ghatis from the water clock. From the difference, knowledgeable astronomers can calculate the local longitude in time.*?”
Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bhaskara, quoted in C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007
“Cesarz okazując łaskawość, naśladuje Boga w jego miłosierdziu.”
Konstantyn IV Pogonatos (652–685) said by 685 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Źródło: Steven Runciman, Teokracja bizantyjska, przeł. Maria Radożycka-Paoletti, wyd. Książnica, Katowice 2008, s. 75.
“Κάλλος γὰρ περίπυστον ἀμωμήτοιο γυναικὸς ὀξύτερον μερόπεσσι πέλει πτερόεντος ὀιστοῦ· ὀφθαλμὸς δ᾿ ὁδός ἐστιν.”
Musaeus Grammaticus (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. Chapman (1616)
“Both the abodes (this world and the Hereafter) are grasped by the intellect, and whoever is deprived of the intellect is deprived of them both.”
Hasan ibn Ali (625–669) said by 669 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”
John Climacus (579–649) said by 649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not try to search outside yourself, which [only] leads to the suffering of saṃsāra. Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity.”
Daman Hongren (601–674) said by 674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will lose a brother. Would that death had deprived me of life today! My mother Fatimah is dead, and my father Ali Ibn Abi Tālib, and my brother Hasan ibn Ali. O! You are the successor of those who have passed away and the guardian of those who remain!”
Zaynab bint Ali (626–684) said by 684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Najlepszym ze wszystkich przyjaciół jest zadowolenie.”
Ali ibn Abi Talib (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So far as a Brother who desires solitude is concerned, his aim and the advantages which he should strive to gain from his solitude are the following:”
Dadisho Qatraya (died 690) said by 690 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will follow the ways of those who came before you, inch by inch and cubit by cubit, even if they were to enter the hole of a monitor lizard, you would follow them." We asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Do you mean the Jews and Christians?" He said, "Who else?”
Abu Said Al-Khudri (612–693) said by 693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One who pursues a goal through sinful ways, will ironically distance himself from that goal, and will approach what he was afraid of.”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely.”
Pope Gregory I (540–604) said by 604 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear ruins! Many a year has been closed, many a month, holy and unhallowed, has elapsed, since I exchanged tender vows with their fair inhabitants!”
Labīd (560–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(…) percepcja jest wolna od konceptualizacji i niebłędna.”
Dharmakirti (700–660) said by 660 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vox, philomela, tua cantus edicere cogit, Inde tui laudem rustica lingua canit.”
Eugenius II of Toledo (died 657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vox philomela (Carmen philomelaicum), ll. 1–2 (tr. Gerald Brenan, 1951)
“In preeminence, the cause of all that is intelligible is not anything intelligible.”
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nawet jeśli prawda może powodować zgorszenie, lepiej dopuścić do zgorszenia niż wyrzec się prawdy.”
Grzegorz I (540–604) said by 604 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give brief orders; speeches that are too long are likely to be forgotten.”
Abu Bakr (573–634) said by 634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to his army; R. W. Maqsood Sayings of Abu Bakr (1989)
“Duch Święty, jak według natury jest istotowo Duchem Ojca, tak według natury istotowo Duchem jest też Syna: jako w sposób niewysłowiony pochodzący istotowo z Ojca przez Syna, który jest zrodzony.”
Maksym Wyznawca (579–662) said by 662 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For brothers who pass from this life, before they are buried, a sacrifice should be offered to the Lord for the remission of their sins.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(…) jest sercem oddana wierze Chrystusowej i w dobrych uczynkach usilna.”
Teodolinda (570–628) said by 628 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source