"Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind…" — Ibn Khaldun
"Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right"
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Ibn Khaldun
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18 Quotes by Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun has 18 quotes on this site.
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and…
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Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are…
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Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But…
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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.…
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned…
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others;…
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable…
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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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More Geometry Quotes
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great…
— Benjamin Peirce
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the…
— Henri Poincare
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The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger…
— Henry David Thoreau
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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one…
— Johannes Kepler
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Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could…
— Johannes Kepler
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever…
— John Stuart Mill
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