Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

We cannot learn men from books.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.