Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint
Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain.
The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled
From love's plectrum arises
The song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
Love is the fire of life
Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
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