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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes…
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans…
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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a…
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Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
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The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was…
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic…
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he…
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding…
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The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.
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Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
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Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from…
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William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in…
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I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
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Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
— Ibn Khaldun
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We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing…
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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
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