Top 35 Quotes With Images By Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

A horse is simply a horse

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The one who prays talks to Allah

Earthly joy is only a moment Before the eternity that awaits us.

Width of life is more important than length of life

Love, knowledge and goodness flow from Allah  to all humanity

Do not argue with the ignorant, forget their advice

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Truly the soul is a divine lamp, And she pours the light of sciences, burning herself

Whoever did not appreciate happiness is approaching misfortune

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Prayer is a spiritual speech with Allah, enabling people to receive the divine overflowing knowledge which establishes a conjunction with the divine world

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length

The sea of words of hidden meaning is full, I learned to read this meaning a long time ago. But when I think about the mysteries of the universe, I understand that I can’t read them

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is

The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

The first attribute of Allah  is that He exists and all other attributes manifest his existence either by addition or with negation and none of them Imply multiplicity or anything contradictory in His essence.

There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.

It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

Allah’s love towards Himself is the most perfect and fullest love because there is no differentiation between the divine attributes in the essence; Love is the manifestation of Essence and Existence.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials

Worship is knowledge, in other words knowing the Necessary Existence by the pure secret and pure heart and the empty soul.

From black dust to heavenly bodies I unraveled the secrets of the wisest words and deeds. I avoided deceit, unraveled all the knots, Only the knot of death I could not unravel.

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side