"A person is truly a human if he……" — Fethullah Gulen
"A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn."
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11 Quotes by Fethullah Gulen
Fethullah Gulen has 11 quotes on this site.
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Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the…
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The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on…
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Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent…
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Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments,…
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Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.
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Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled…
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Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.
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Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.
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Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most…
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Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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