Taha Quotes & Sayings

Science is not about what's true. It's about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence. — Lee Smolin

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. — Virginia Woolf

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people's hearts — Taha Muhammad Ali

The coast at the point at which he reached it seemed specially designed by nature for his favorable and auspicious reception. There lay before him what seemed the estuary of a large and beautiful river, free from rocks or other impediments, and with a very gentle current. It had an ample depth of water for his vessels, and was sufficiently broad, even at a considerable distance inland, for them to beat about in. It was encircled by lofty and picturesque hills, the aspect of which reminded him of the "Pena de los Enamorados" near Granada, in Spain; and upon the summit of one of them was what he described as another little hill, shaped like a graceful mosque. — Willis Fletcher Johnson

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life. — Abir Taha

Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent? — Oswald Chambers

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one. — Jonathan Schell

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

The Sudanese intellectual Mahmoud Mohammed Taha argued that Muslims should embrace the spiritual Islam of Mecca and let go of the Islam of Muhammad's more warlike and political Medina period, which, Taha argued, applied only to that specific moment in time and not to subsequent generations. Taha also campaigned against introducing sharia in Sudan. Though he still believed there was no god but Allah, and that Muhammad was his messenger, Taha was nonetheless hanged for apostasy in 1985. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein ... devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology ... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti ... repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering. — Toby Lester

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training. — Peter Agre

Your father embraced me once more. I felt two grateful tears on my forehead, like the baptism of my past faults, and at the moment when I consented to give myself up to another man I glowed with pride at the thought of what I was redeeming by this new fault. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. — John R. Rice

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

I loved Le Taha'a private resort in Tahiti. It's accessible only by private boat or helicopter, and it sits on a tiny strip of land just big enough for one hotel. It's extraordinary and faces the Vanilla Island where Tahitians grow vanilla. — Marie Helvin

I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal ... you hope for. — John Farrar

Every problem has a solution. — Lilas Taha

If she smells good she is your perfect date — Bazil Taha Ahmed

You will not achieve true devotion in one go. The gihad of the soul, Taha, is the Greater Gihad, as the Messenger of God - God bless him and give him peace - called it." "What should I do, Master? — Alaa Al Aswany

Some people will mess with you, whenever they want, and for no reason except that they can. But hurting yourself is giving those people all the power, and they don't deserve it. Why would they deserve to have control over your life? Because they're cool? Because they're pretty? That's completely illogical. — Leila Sales