I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach
English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to th...
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed
American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman.
Don’t hate what you don’t know, for the greater part of knowledge consists what you don’t know.
Cousin and son-in-law of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), the last prophet of Islam. He ruled as the fourth caliph fr...
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his high...
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore
Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live
American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, ...
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
Classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being t...
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge
Sir Muhammad Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and sch...
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Galileo has been called the "...