Avicenna
Avicenna

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Avicenna
Avicenna

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Avicenna
Avicenna

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna
Avicenna

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change.

Avicenna
Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Durch starkes Denken kann man ein Kamel zu Fall bringen.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Du glaubst dich aus dem Nichts und enthältst das Universum.

Avicenna
Avicenna

Laufe in Sandalen, bis daß dir die Weisheit Schuhe einbringt.