"“Huh,” Sepak thought, marveling how much one could learn by just sitting still and observing. It wasn’t a skill one learned in the frenetic pace of modern society."

"The best of those amongst you is the one who learns the Qur’an and then teaches it to others."

"My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there."

"If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man t…"

"Hitchens: "Oh, I don't know, I think if you're in favour of bombing a country, you might pay it the complim…"

"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."

"Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps o…"