Throughout the past there has been a lack of intimacy affection and regard for Islam by Christianity. This to a large extent has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing and as it now appears unlimited ascent of man to knowledge and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people change course and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this we are ready to work with him.

Americans particularly after World War II tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity and our soldiers brought home glory and victory and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.