Drop of water Quote by Ibn Khaldun Download Open image “The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.” — Ibn Khaldun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drop of water Inspirational Past Time Water
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past. — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems.… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a single drop of water is so valuable for the very thirsty that he may hesitate to drink it immediately!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image