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“The king of Gurjars maintain numerous faces and no other Indian prince has so fine a cavalry. He has great riches and his camels and horses are numerous. There is no country in India more safe from robbers”
Mihira Bhoja (836–885) said by 885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good people, the real Buddha is formless; the real Dharma has no marks. The way you are acting is to erect models and patterns based upon the illusory transformations [which were provisionally put forward in the Buddhist teachings]. Even if you get something from this, you are all wild fox spirits. This is not real Buddhism at all, but the view of outsiders.”
Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non patitur cunctas angustia carminis huius Pulei virtutes celeri comprendere versu. Hoc apud Indorum tanti constare peritos Fertur, apud Gallos quanti valet Indica nigri Congeries piperis. Quis iam dubitare sinetur Hac herba plures leniri posse labores, Quam pretiis inhianter emit ditissima tantis Gens hebenoque auroque fluens et mira volenti Quaeque ferens mundo?”
Walafrid Strabo (808–849) said by 849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every nearest to Divine presence is given spiritual acumen in proportion to his proximity to Divine sanctuary.”
Sari al-Saqati (772–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“みな人は花の衣になりぬなり苔のたもとよかわきだにせよ”
遍昭 (816–890) said by 890 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is like a market; one community reaps benefit in it while another one faces loss.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“道流、爾の如法に見解せんと欲得すれば、但だ人惑を受くる莫かれ。裏（うち）に向かい外に向かい、逢著すれば便ち殺せ。佛に逢えば佛を殺し、祖に逢えば祖を殺し、父母に逢えば父母を殺し、親眷に逢えば親眷を殺して、始めて解脱を得ん、物と拘わらず、透脱すること自在ならん。”
臨済義玄 (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.”
Al-Jahiz (775–869) said by 869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sed fortasse quis dixerit: Quomodo omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt?”
John Scotus Eriugena (800–877) said by 877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“車を停めてなにをするでもなく楓林の夕べを味わえば、／霜に焼けた葉は春の花よりなお紅い。-- 山道を行く（山行）”
杜牧 (803–852) said by 852 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet said: The testimony of a nomad Arab against a townsman is not allowable.”
Sunan Abi Dawud (817–888) said by 888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first essential in chemistry is that you should perform practical work and conduct experiments, for he who performs not practical work nor makes experiments will never attain to the least degree of mastery. But you, O my son, do experiment's so that you may acquire knowledge. Scientists delight not in abundance of material; they rejoice only in the excellence of their experimental methods.”
Jabir ibn Hayyan (721–815) said by 815 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by , Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists (2008) p. 163.
“Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized.”
Al-Shafi‘i (767–820) said by 820 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diwan al-Imam al-shafi'i, (book of poems - al-shafi'i) p. 100; Dar El-Marefah Beirut - Lebanon 2005
“If the scholars remains silent the grounds of dissimulation (Taqiyah), and the ignorant do not know, when will the truth be manifested?”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“わくらばにとふ人あらばすまの浦に もしほたれつつわぶとこたへよ”
在原行平 (818–893) said by 893 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“らかにしてにり、きてにり。”
温庭イン (812–870) said by 870 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers.”
Ali al-Rida (770–818) said by 818 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. For the seeker of truth nothing takes precedence over the truth.”
Al-Kindi (801–873) said by 873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ibid., trans. Alfred L. Ivry, Al-Kindi's Metaphysics (SUNY Press, 1978) p. 58
“Your daily subsistence which has been assured by God, should not prevent you from rising in obedience and performing your duties.”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam, obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum, vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco Musas, dormisco stertens oro Deum vigilans. Conscia mens scelerum deflet peccamina vitae: parcite vos misero, Christe Maria, viro.”
Sedulius Scottus (801–875) said by 875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by James Carney, in Robert McNally (ed.) Old Ireland (New York: Fordham University Press, 1965) p. 250. Other translations: Helen Waddell, Medieval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable & Co, 1929) p. 123 · George …
“Who grumbles at the descent of affliction is like one who holds spear is his hand and fight with the Lord.”
Shaqiq al-Balkhi (died 810) said by 810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abu Wa'il narrated: "Ali said to Abu Al-Hayyaj Al-Asadi: 'I am dispatching you with what the Prophet dispatched me: "That you not leave an elevated grave without leveling it, nor an image without erasing it.”
Al-Tirmidhi (825–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source