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Avicenna has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
• Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health,…
• Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of…
• Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.…
• Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal…
• It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in…
• The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the…
• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
• There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which…
• As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
• A horse is simply a horse.

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