Qabal Quotes & Sayings

Love is an action, never simply a feeling. — Bell Hooks

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. — Larry Wall

The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: "He [God] taught Adam the names of all things."8 Reason, intelligence, language, and writing will grant people the qualities required to enable them to be God's khalifahs (vicegerents) on earth, and from the very beginning, Quranic Revelation allies recognition of the Creator to knowledge and science, thus echoing the origin of creation itself.9 — Tariq Ramadan

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. — Edwin Land

The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it. — Vannevar Bush

Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we're all just walking each other home. I love that. I try to live by it. — Anne Lamott

When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move. — Jim Starlin

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us. — Robin Jones Gunn