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…

— Ameen Rihani

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a…

— Ameen Rihani

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to…

— Ameen Rihani

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties…

— Ameen Rihani

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need…

— Ameen Rihani

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

— Ameen Rihani

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental…

— Ameen Rihani

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

— Ameen Rihani

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is…

— Ameen Rihani

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are…

— Ameen Rihani

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

— Ameen Rihani

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

— Ameen Rihani

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes…

— Ameen Rihani

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all…

— Ameen Rihani

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers…

— Ameen Rihani

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won…

— Ameen Rihani