Desert Quote by Ameen Rihani

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

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

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

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

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

— Ameen Rihani

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

— Ameen Rihani

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

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

— Ameen Rihani

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

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

— Ameen Rihani

No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .

— Ameen Rihani