Muhammad Iqbal Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.”

“Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.”

“I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.”

“The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.”

“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”

“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.”

“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”

“Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.”

“It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.”

“Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.”