Philosophical Sayings

Traveling offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings!

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Without stones there is no arch.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came into the world naked and unclothed.

I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the …

As for not being ashamed to show our members, the fact is that we do no sin with them and therefore have no more shame in them than you have when you show your hand or face or the other parts of your body that do not lead you into carnal sin; whereas…

Actions are judged by intentions.

The best of you are those who are best to their families.

He who does not show mercy to others will not be shown mercy.

The one who repents from sin is like one who has not sinned at all.

Indeed, God is gentle and loves gentleness in all matters.

The true Muslim is he from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe.

Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the falsest of speech.

Be in the world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.

The best jihad is the word of justice in front of an oppressive ruler.

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.

The best among you are those who have the best manners and character.