78 Quotes by Ameen Rihani

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.