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Quotes by Raheel Farooq

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Runner up is champion of the losers.

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express, or even, perceive it. People differ only in their reference to reality; and this difference is not without its own implications. Certain interpretations have more value in certain situations, and vice versa. Any number of opposite propositions may be true simultaneously, but their truth value will ultimately decide their worth. From which angle to look at reality at a certain time, is a wisdom philosophy is not designed to endow. It can only help you refine your perception. In order to choose and change your mode of perception, you perhaps need Will.

The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.

Children and journalists need what they dont need actually.