Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes? — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
